An Improved Explicit Scheme for Age-Dependent Population Models with Spatial Diffusion

Abstract

In this work we present three age-structured models with spatial dependence. We introduce an improved explicit method, namely Super-Time-Stepping (STS) developed for parabolic problems and we use its modification for the numerical treatment of our models. We explain how the acceleration scheme can be adapted to the age-dependent models. We prove convergence of the method in case of Dirichlet boundary conditions and we demonstrate the accuracy and the efficiency of the Modified STS comparing it with other numerical algorithms of same or higher order, namely the explicit, fully implicit and Crank-Nicolson standard schemes.