Abstract
In this paper, we consider the oscillations of numerical solutions for the nonlinear delay differential equations in a hematopoiesis model. Using two θ-methods, namely the linear θ-method and the one-leg θ-method, several conditions, under which the numerical solutions oscillate, are obtained. Moreover, it is proved that every non-oscillatory numerical solution tends to an equilibrium point of the original system. Some numerical experiments are provided to support the theoretical results.
MSC:65L05, 65L20.
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1 Introduction
In recent years, there has been much research activity concerning the oscillatory behavior of solutions of difference equations [1, 2], differential equations with piecewise continuous arguments (EPCA) [3, 4], dynamic equations [5, 6] and partial differential equations [7, 8]. Among these investigations, oscillations of solutions of delay differential equations (DDEs) have also been the subject of many recent studies [9–12]. The strong interest in this study is motivated by the fact that it has many useful applications in some mathematical models such as biology, ecology, spread of some infectious diseases in humans and so on. For more information on this study, the reader can see [13, 14] and the references therein.
Relative to the investigation of the oscillations of the analytic solutions, much research has been focused on the corresponding behavior of the numerical solutions for DDEs. In [15, 16], oscillations of numerical solutions in θ-methods and Runge-Kutta methods for a linear EPCA were considered, respectively. Wang et al. [17] studied numerical oscillations of alternately advanced and retarded EPCA, the conditions of oscillations for the θ-methods are obtained. To the best of our knowledge, until now very few results dealing with the oscillations of the numerical solutions for nonlinear DDEs have been reported except for [18]. Different from [18], in our paper, we consider another nonlinear DDEs in a hematopoiesis model and get some new results.
In this paper, we consider the following equation:
with the conditions
Equation (1) is one of the models proposed by Nazarenko [19] to study the control of a single population of cells. Here is the size of the population of cells, and cells are lost at a rate p, and the function
is the flux function, which depends on the size of cells and at times t and , respectively, and τ is the time of maturation. The model (1) has been recently investigated by several researchers. Kubiaczyk and Saker [20] considered Equation (1) and gave a sufficient condition for oscillations of all solutions about the positive unique equilibrium point K and proved that every non-oscillatory positive solution of Equation (1) tends to K as . Following up the investigation in [20], Saker and Agarwal [21] studied the oscillations and global attractivity of Equation (1) with time periodic coefficients. Song et al. [22] considered the existence of local and global Hopf bifurcations of Equation (1). Up to now, few results on the properties of numerical solutions for Equation (1) were established. In the present paper, we investigate some sufficient conditions under which the numerical solutions are oscillatory. We also consider the asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory numerical solutions.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. In the next section, some necessary concepts and results for oscillations of the analytic solutions are given. In Section 3, we obtain a recurrence relation by applying the θ-methods to the simplified form which comes from making an invariant oscillation transformation on Equation (1). Moreover, the oscillations of the numerical solutions are discussed and conditions under which the numerical solutions oscillate are obtained. In Section 4, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory solutions, and the results of some numerical experiments are given in Section 5. Finally, conclusions are drawn in Section 6.
2 Preliminaries
Definition 2.1 A solution of Equation (1) is said to oscillate about K if has arbitrarily large zeros. Otherwise, is called non-oscillatory. When , we say that oscillates about zero or simply oscillates.
Definition 2.2 A sequence is said to oscillate about if is neither eventually positive nor eventually negative. Otherwise, is called non-oscillatory. If is a constant sequence, we simply say that oscillates about . When , we say that oscillates about zero or simply oscillates.
Definition 2.3 We say Equation (1) oscillates if all of its solutions are oscillatory.
Theorem 2.4 (see [23])
Consider the difference equation
assume that and for . Then the following statements are equivalent:
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(i)
Every solution of Equation (3) oscillates;
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(ii)
The characteristic equation has no positive roots.
Theorem 2.5 (see [23])
Consider the difference equation
where , and . Then every solution of Equation (4) oscillates if and only if one of the following conditions holds:
-
(i)
and ;
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(ii)
and ;
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(iii)
and .
Lemma 2.6 For and , we have .
Lemma 2.7 For and , we have .
Lemma 2.8 (see [24])
For all ,
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(i)
if and only if for , for ;
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(ii)
if and only if for , for ,
where and M is a positive constant.
Theorem 2.9 (see [20])
Assume that condition (2) holds, then every solution of Equation (1) oscillates about K if and only if
where
is the unique positive equilibrium point of Equation (1).
For simplicity, let
then (5) can be written as
3 Oscillations of numerical solutions
3.1 Transformation
We associate an initial condition of the form
with Equation (1), where , .
According to the corresponding method in [20], let us introduce an invariant oscillation transformation , then Equation (1) can be reduced to
where
Then oscillates about K if and only if oscillates.
3.2 The difference scheme
Applying the linear θ-method and the one-leg θ-method to Equation (9), we obtain the same recurrence relation
where , , m is a positive integer. and are approximations to and of Equation (9) at , respectively.
Let , then we have
Definition 3.1 We call the iteration formula (11) the exponential θ-method for Equation (1), where , , , and are approximations to and of Equation (1) at , respectively.
The convergence of the exponential θ-method is given in the following theorem.
Theorem 3.2 The exponential θ-method (11) is convergent with order
Proof By the method of steps which is introduced in [25], we can easily get this proof. □
3.3 Oscillation analysis
It is not difficult to show that oscillates about K if and only if is oscillatory. In order to study the oscillations of (11), we only need to consider the oscillations of (10). The following conditions which are taken from [20] will be used in the next analysis:
For (10), its linearized form is given by
Then, by taking into account (6), Equation (13) is equivalent to
It follows from [23] that (10) oscillates if (14) oscillates under condition (12).
Definition 3.3 The iteration (11) is said to be oscillatory if all of its solutions are oscillatory.
Definition 3.4 We say that the exponential θ-method preserves the oscillations of Equation (1) if Equation (1) oscillates, then there is a or such that (11) oscillates for . Similarly, we say that the exponential θ-method preserves the non-oscillations of Equation (1) if Equation (1) non-oscillates, then there is a or such that (11) non-oscillates for .
In the following, we study whether the exponential θ-method preserves the oscillations of Equation (1). That is, when Theorem 2.9 holds, we investigate the conditions under which (11) is oscillatory.
Lemma 3.5 The characteristic equation of (13) is given by
where the function , θ is a parameter in the exponential θ-method.
Proof Let in (13), we have
That is,
which is equivalent to
In view of [26], the stability function of the θ-method is
then the characteristic equation of (13) is given by (15). This completes the present proof. □
Lemma 3.6 If , then the characteristic equation (15) has no positive roots for .
Proof Let . By Lemma 2.8, we know that
Now we are going to prove that for . Suppose the opposite, that is, there exists a such that , then , and
Multiplying both sides of the inequality (17) by , we obtain
which gives
therefore we have the following two cases.
Case I: If , then , we arrive at the contradiction with the condition .
Case II: If , then according to Lemma 2.7, we get
that is,
so , which is also a contradiction to .
Consequently, for ,
which implies that the characteristic equation (15) has no positive roots. The proof is completed. □
Without loss of generality, in the case of , we assume that .
Lemma 3.7 If and , then the characteristic equation (15) has no positive roots for , where
Proof Since is an increasing function of θ when , then for and ,
In the following, we prove that the inequality
holds under certain conditions.
From (18), it follows that
where
so we only need to prove for . It is easy to know that is the characteristic polynomial of the following difference scheme:
According to Theorems 2.4 and 2.5, we have that has no positive roots if and only if
or, equivalently,
We examine two cases depending on the position of Tτ: Either or .
Case I: If , in view of , then (19) holds true.
Case II: If and , then by Lemma 2.6 we obtain
Therefore the inequality (18) holds for , where
So we arrive at
holds for and , which implies that the characteristic equation (15) has no positive roots. This completes the proof. □
Remark 3.8 Since , then , thus is meaningful.
In view of (12), Lemmas 3.6, 3.7 and Theorem 2.4, we have the first main theorem of this paper.
Theorem 3.9 If , then (11) is oscillatory for
where is defined in Lemma 3.7.
4 Asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory solutions
In this section, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory solutions of (11). The following lemma is a useful result on asymptotic behavior of Equation (1).
Lemma 4.1 (see [20])
Let be a positive solution of Equation (1), which does not oscillate about K. Then .
From the relationship between Equations (1) and (9), we know that the non-oscillatory solution of Equation (9) satisfies if Lemma 4.1 holds. Next, we will prove that the numerical solution of Equation (1) can inherit this property.
Lemma 4.2 Let be a non-oscillatory solution of (10), then .
Proof Without loss of generality, we may assume that for sufficiently large n. Then by condition (12) we know that for sufficiently large i. Moreover, it can be seen from (10) that
which gives
hence , then is decreasing. So there exists an such that
Now we are going to prove that . If this is not the case, that is, if , then there exists and such that for , . Hence and . So (20) yields
which implies that , where
Thus as , which is a contradiction to (21). Hence, we finish the proof. □
Therefore, the second main theorem of this paper is as follows.
Theorem 4.3 Let be a positive solution of (11), which does not oscillate about K, then .
5 Numerical experiments
In this section, we give some numerical examples to illustrate our results, consider the nonlinear DDEs [22]
Obviously, the parameters are , , , and in Equation (1) and the positive equilibrium is . In the following, we give three different values of τ and discuss the accuracy of the numerical solution and the oscillatory behavior of Equation (22).
First of all, we consider the equation
with initial value for . Let the stepsize , we shall use the exponential θ-method with different θ and the Euler method to get the numerical solution at . On the other hand, the exact solution is . In Table 1 we have listed the absolute errors (AE) and the relative errors (RE) at . We can see from this table that the errors of the Euler method are larger than those of the exponential θ-method. Therefore, compared with the classical Euler method, the exponential θ-method has higher accuracy. Furthermore, in Figures 1 and 2, the plots of the error as a function of time and as a function of the stepsize for a sequence of stepsizes are presented. The two figures also show that the effect of approximation of the numerical solution is good.
In addition, it is easy to see that condition (5) holds true. That is, the analytic solutions of Equation (23) are oscillatory. In Figures 3-5, we draw the figures of the analytic solutions and the numerical solutions of Equation (23), respectively. In Figure 4, , and . Simultaneously, in Figure 5, , and . From the two figures, we can see that the numerical solutions of Equation (23) oscillate about , which is in agreement with Theorem 3.9.
Next, we consider the following equation:
with initial value for . In Equation (24), it is not difficult to see that condition (5) is fulfilled. That is, the analytic solutions of Equation (24) are oscillatory. In Figures 6-8, we draw the figures of the analytic solutions and the numerical solutions of Equation (24), respectively. In Figure 7, , and . Further, in Figure 8, , . By simple calculation, we have and . We can see from the three figures that the numerical solutions of Equation (24) oscillate about , which are consistent with Theorem 3.9. On the other hand, we notice that under the assumption , so the stepsize is not optimal.
Moreover, we consider another equation
with initial value for . For Equation (25), it is easy to see that , so condition (5) is not satisfied. That is, the analytic solutions of Equation (25) are non-oscillatory. In Figures 9-11, we draw the figures of the analytic solutions and the numerical solutions of Equation (25), respectively. In Figure 9, we can see that as . From Figures 10 and 11, we can also see that the numerical solutions of Equation (25) satisfy as . That is, the numerical method preserves the asymptotic behavior of non-oscillatory solutions of Equation (25), which coincides with Theorem 4.3.
Finally, by Definition 3.4, we can see from these figures that the exponential θ-method preserves the oscillations of Equations (23) and (24) and the non-oscillations of Equation (25), respectively.
All the above numerical examples are in agreement with the main results in this paper.
6 Conclusions
In this paper, we discuss the oscillations of the numerical solutions of a nonlinear
DDEs in a hematopoiesis model. The convergent exponential θ-method, namely the linear θ-method and the one-leg θ-method in an exponential form, is constructed. We obtain some conditions under which the numerical solutions oscillate in the case of oscillations of the analytic solutions. We also prove that non-oscillatory numerical solutions can preserve the corresponding properties of the analytic solutions. It is pointed out that the stepsize in Lemma 3.7 is not optimal, which gives us the further working direction.
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The authors would like to express their deep gratitude to the referees for their valuable suggestions and comments. The first author would like to thank Professor Mingzhu Liu and Doctor Zhanwen Yang for their selfless help. This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11201084).
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Wang, Q., Wen, J., Qiu, S. et al. Numerical oscillations for first-order nonlinear delay differential equations in a hematopoiesis model. Adv Differ Equ 2013, 163 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-1847-2013-163
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