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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: Mackey-Glass solutions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.234353.29333@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <1993Jan25.171732.4712@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:43:53 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.171732.4712@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- markb@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Mark Bower) writes:
- >I am looking for papers describing solution techniques and giving
- >a closed form solution of the Mackey-Glass equation:
- >
- >dx x(t - T)
- >-- = -b x(t) + a ---------- 10
- >dt 1 + x(t - T)^
-
- An equation of this sort is known as a delay-differential equation.
- Here are a few papers that discuss numerical solutions of delay-differential
- equations:
-
- George Marsaglia, Arif Zaman and John C.W. Marsaglia, Math. Comp. 53, 191-201
- (1989). This paper describes a very elegant method of solution
- based on power series expansions between the knots.
- G.S. Virk, IEE Proc. D 132, 119-123 (1985). This paper extends
- Runge-Kutta methods to delay-differential equations. The method
- presented is probably a reasonable compromise between computational
- efficiency and code complexity.
- Irving R. Epstein and Yin Luo, J. Chem. Phys. 95, 244-254 (1991). In
- addition to the application of delay-differential equations to
- kinetics, several simple numerical integration methods are
- presented.
-
- Good luck.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-