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We investigate biological processes, particularly the propagation of malaria. Both the continuous and the numerical models on some fixed mesh should preserve the basic qualitative properties of the original phenomenon. Our main goal is to give the conditions for the discrete (numerical) models of the malaria phenomena under which they possess some given qualitative property, namely, to be between zero and one. The conditions which guarantee this requirement are related to the time-discretization step-size. We give a sufficient condition for some explicit methods. For implicit methods we prove that the above property holds unconditionally.
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The authors were supported by the Hungarian Research Fund OTKA under grant no. K112157 and SNN-125119.
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Faragó, I., Mincsovics, M.E. & Mosleh, R. Reliable Numerical Modelling of Malaria Propagation. Appl Math 63, 259–271 (2018). https://doi.org/10.21136/AM.2018.0098-18
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