On a prey-predator reaction-diffusion system with Holling type III functional response

  • Authors:
  • Narcisa Apreutesei;Gabriel Dimitriu

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University "Gh. Asachi", Department of Mathematics, 700506 Iaşi, Romania;"Gr. T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Mathematics and Informatics, 700115 Iaşi, Romania

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we study a prey-predator model defined by an initial-boundary value problem whose dynamics is described by a Holling type III functional response. We establish global existence and uniqueness of the strong solution. We prove that if the initial data are positive and satisfy a certain regularity condition, the solution of the problem is positive and bounded on the domain Q=(0,T)x@W and then we deduce the continuous dependence on the initial data. A numerical approximation of the system is carried out with a spectral method coupled with the fourth-order Runge-Kutta time solver. The biological relevance of the comparative numerical results is also presented.