Rational pseudospectral approximation to the solution of a nonlinear integro-differential equation arising in modeling of the population growth》.pdf

Applied Mathematical Modelling 39 (2015) 5521–5530 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Mathematical Modelling journal homepage: www.else /locate/apm Rational pseudospectral approximation to the solution of a nonlinear integro-differential equation arising in modeling of the population growth Mehdi Dehghan ⇑, Mehdi Shahini Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Amirkabir University of Technology, No. 424, Hafez Ave., Tehran, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Pseudospectral approach based on rational Legendre and rational Chebyshev functions is Received 27 January 2012 developed to solve the nonlinear integro-differential Volterra’s population model. The Received in revised form 28 February 2013 model includes an integral term that characterizes accumulated toxicity on the species Accepted 5 January 2015 in addition to the terms of the logistic equation. Since the equation is defined on positive Available online 17 January 2015 real line, the rational Legendre and the rational Chebyshev functions are used to approxi- mate the unknown function. The approach reduces the solution of the main problem to the Keywords: solution of a system of nonlinear algebraic equations. The obtained results represent the Pseudospectral method exponential convergence of the new method, so it can be applied on a wide variety of Rational approximation Integro