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Numerical Solution of Stiff Delay and Singular

Delay Systems using Leapfrog Method

S. Sekar and M. Vijayarakavan

Abstract— In this paper, a new method of analysis of the stiff delay and singular delay systems using Leapfrog method is presented. To illustrate the effectiveness of the Leapfrog method, an example of the stiff delay and singular delay systems has been considered and the solutions were obtained using methods taken from the literature (single-term Haar wavelet series [6]) and Leapfrog method and are compared with the exact solutions of the stiff delay and singular delay systems. Error graphs are presented to highlight the efficiency of the Leapfrog method.

Index Terms— Haar wavelet, Single term Haar wavelet series, Leapfrog method, singular delay systems, stiff delay systems.

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1 INTRODUCTION

system of DDEs is considered stiff when it contains pro- cesses of widely different time scales. From a computa-

tional point of view the stiffness implies that, while solving numerically the corresponding initial value problem by a giv- en method with assigned tolerance, a stepsize is restricted by stability requirements rather than by the accuracy demands. The response of an immune system cannot be represented cor- rectly without the hereditary phenomena being taken into ac- count: cell division, differentiation, etc. The kinetic parameters of the models represent high-rate (molecular) and slowrate (cellular) interactions in the immune system that span a time scale from seconds to days. Therefore, the systems of DDEs

frog method for solving stiff delay and singular delay systems is introduced. In Section 3 presents general form of stiff delay and singular delay systems. In Section 4 and 5, the Leapfrog and STHWS [4-5, 7-9] method for solving stiff delay and sin- gular delay systems is solved. We refer [4-9] for the numerical treatment of stiff delay and singular delay systems.

2 LEAPFROG METHOD

In mathematics Leapfrog integration is a simple method for numerically integrating differential equations of the form

x = F (x) , or equivalently of the form v = F (x), x ≡ v , particu-

larly in the case of a dynamical system of classical mechanics.

appearing in immune response modelling are typically stiff.

Now day, the phenomena of time delay in many practical

Such problems often take the form

x = −∇V (x) , with energy

systems have had many scholars’ much attention. And many excellent results for the systems with time delay have been obtained [1–18]. Especially for the relationship between eigen- value and stability of differential systems with delay, much


function E(x, v) = 1 v 2 + V (x) , where V is the potential energy

2

of the system. The method is known by different names in

different disciplines. In particular, it is similar to the Velocity

Verlet method, which is a variant of Verlet integration. Leap-

achievement has been gotten. But we notice that a lot of prac-

frog integration is equivalent to updating positions

x(t ) and

tical systems, such as economic systems, power systems and

so on, are singular differential systems with delay. In [10–18],

velocities

v(t ) = x(t )

at interleaved time points, staggered in

authors have discussed the singular differential systems, even the singular differential systems with delay, and have gotten some consequences. But up to now, for the relationship be- tween eigenvalue and stability of singular differential systems with delay, there is hardly effective verdict.

In this article introduced a numerical method for ad-

such a way that they 'Leapfrog' over each other. For example,

the position is updated at integer time steps and the velocity is

updated at integer-plus-a-half time steps.

Leapfrog integration is a second order method, in con-

trast to Euler integration, which is only first order, yet requires

the same number of function evaluations per step. Unlike Eu- ler integration, it is stable for oscillatory motion, as long as the

dressing stiff delay and singular delay systems by an applica-

time-step

t is constant, and

t ≤ 2 w . In Leapfrog integra-

tion of the Leapfrog method which was studied by S.Sekar

and team of his researchers [4-5, 7-9]. In Section 2, the Leap-

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Department of Mathematics, Government Arts College (Autonomous), Cherry road, Salem – 636 007, Tamil Nadu, India

tion, the equations for updating position and velocity are

xi = xi −1 + vi −1 2t,

ai = F (xi )


vi +1 2 = vi −1 2 + ai t,

E-mail:sekar_nitt@rediffmail.com

where

xi is position at step i, vi +1 2 , is the velocity, or first de-

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rivative of x, at step

i + 1 2, ai = F (xi ) is the acceleration, or

308, Tamil Nadu, India

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second derivative of x, at step i and t is the size of each time step. These equations can be expressed in a form which gives

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velocity at integer steps as well. However, even in this syn-

for

0 < t ≤ 4

and

p = e

− 1

2 and

q = e−11

with

x(t ) = [1

0]T on

chronized form, the time-step t must be constant to maintain stability.

[−1

0]. The exact solution of (4) is

( ) 2 exp  −

x1 t =

 − t

exp

11t

x = x + v t + 1 a t 2 ,

 2  

i +1 i i 2 i

x t = −

 − t

exp

11t

v = v + 1 (a + a

)t.

2 ( )

exp  +

2

()

i +1

i 2 i

i +1

  

One use of this equation is in gravity simulations, since in that case the acceleration depends only on the positions of the gravitating masses, although higher order integrators (such as Runge–Kutta methods) are more frequently used. There are two primary strengths to Leapfrog integration when applied

Leapfrog method. One can integrate forward n steps, and then reverse the direction of integration and integrate backwards n steps to arrive at the same starting position. The second strength of Leapfrog integration is its symplectic nature, which implies that it conserves the (slightly modified) energy of dynamical systems. This is especially useful when compu- ting orbital dynamics, as other integration schemes, such as the Runge-Kutta method, do not conserve energy and allow the system to drift substantially over time.

3 GENERAL FORM OF STIFF DELAY AND SINGULAR

DELAY SYSTEMS

In this section, the stiff delay system of the form is considered

x(t ) = Ax(t ) + Bx(t h)

x(t ) = φ (t )

t [h,0]

the discrete time solution and the exact solution are evaluated.

The results are shown in Table 1-2 and Fig. 1-2.

TABLE 1

ERROR CALCULATION FOR x1 (t )

Example 4

t Exact STHWS Leapfrog

Solution Solution Error Solution Error

0.1 1.569587765 1.569589365 1.6E-06 1.569587781 1.6E-08
0.2 1.698871678 1.698874878 3.2E-06 1.69887171 3.2E-08
0.3 1.684532785 1.684535685 2.9E-06 1.684532814 2.9E-08
0.4 1.625184166 1.625186366 2.2E-06 1.625184188 2.2E-08
0.5 1.553514795 1.553516195 1.4E-06 1.553514809 1.4E-08
0.6 1.480276073 1.480276973 9E-07 1.480276082 9E-09
0.7 1.408923352 1.408923552 2E-07 1.408923354 2E-09
0.8 1.340489359 1.340585359 9.6E-05 1.340490319 9.6E-07
0.9 1.275206129 1.275295129 8.9E-05 1.275207019 8.9E-07
1.0 1.213044618 1.213127618 8.3E-05 1.213045448 8.3E-07

TABLE 2

ERROR CALCULATION FOR x2 (t )

where x is an n-state vector and A and B are

φ (t ) is an initial function.

n × n matrices.

t

Example 4

Exact STHWS Leapfrog

And the singular delay system of the form is considered

Kx(t ) = Ax(t ) + Bx(t h)+ Cu(t )

x(t ) = φ (t ) on [-h,0]

where K is an n × n singular matrix, A and B are n × n matrices

Solution Solution Error Solution Error

0.1 -0.618358341 -0.618356041 2.3E-06 -0.618358318 2.3E-08
0.2 -0.79403426 -0.79403156 2.7E-06 -0.794034233 2.7E-08
0.3 -0.823824809 -0.823821709 3.1E-06 -0.823824778 3.1E-08

and C is an

n × m

matrix. φ (t ) is an initial function, x is an n-

0.4 -0.806453413 -0.806449913 3.5E-06 -0.806453378 3.5E-08

state vector and u is an m-vector of control.

To highlight the efficiency of the Leapfrog method, we

consider the following two different examples taken from the

real world applications (4 Example and 5 Example), along

with the exact solutions. The discrete solutions obtained by the

two methods, Leapfrog method and STHWS method, the ab-

solute errors between them are calculated. To distinguish the

effect of the errors in accordance with the exact solutions, a graphical representation is given for selected values of “ x “and is presented in Figures 1 - 4 and Table 1 - 4 for stiff delay and singular delay systems, using three-dimensional

effect.

0.5 -0.774714012 -0.774710112 3.9E-06 -0.774713973 3.9E-08
0.6 -0.739457853 -0.739453553 4.3E-06 -0.73945781 4.3E-08
0.7 -0.704235263 -0.704230563 4.7E-06 -0.704235216 4.7E-08
0.8 -0.670169313 -0.670164213 5.1E-06 -0.670169262 5.1E-08
0.9 -0.637577977 -0.637572477 5.5E-06 -0.637577922 5.5E-08
1.0 -0.606513958 -0.606508058 5.9E-06 -0.606513899 5.9E-08

5 EXAMPLE OF SINGULAR DELAY SYSTEMS

Consider the singular delay system S. Sekar et al. [6]

4 EXAMPLE OF STIFF DELAY SYSTEMS

1 0  x1 (t )
− 1

0  x1 (t )

− π / 2e
0  x1 (t − 1)
1 0 0

Consider the stiff delay system S. Sekar et al. [6]

0 0  x(t ) = − 1

1  x (t ) +  1

0  x (t − 1) + 0
1  
   2  
  2  
  2
   1

x1 (t )

 11

21   x1 (t )

q − 2 p

2 p − 2q  x1 (t − 1)

with x(t ) = [1

e −1]T

on [−1

0]. The exact solution of (6) is

x(t ) = − 21 / 2

− 41 / 2  x (t ) +  p q

p − 2q   x (t − 1)

2  

  2  

  2

x1 (t ) = exp(t )sin(πt / 2)

x2 (t ) = exp(t )sin(πt / 2) + exp(t + 1)cos(πt / 2) − 1

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the discrete time solution and the exact solution are evaluated. The results are shown in Table 3-4 and Fig. 3-4.

FIG. 1. ERROR ESTIMATION OF EXAMPLE 4 AT

x1 (t )

FIG. 2. ERROR ESTIMATION OF EXAMPLE 4 AT x2 (t )

FIG. 3. ERROR ESTIMATION OF EXAMPLE 5 AT

x1 (t )

TABLE 3

ERROR CALCULATION FOR x1 (t )

Example 5

t Exact STHWS Leapfrog

Solution Solution Error Solution Error

FIG. 4. ERROR ESTIMATION OF EXAMPLE 5 AT x2 (t )


0.1 0.372900226 0.372904826 4.6E-06 0.372900272 4.6E-08
0.2 -0.614856354 -0.614851454 4.9E-06 -0.614856305 4.9E-08
0.3 0.708500714 0.708505914 5.2E-06 0.708500766 5.2E-08
0.4 -0.664809247 -0.664803747 5.5E-06 -0.664809192 5.5E-08
0.5 0.516099076 0.516104876 5.8E-06 0.516099134 5.8E-08
0.6 -0.306669932 -0.306663832 6.1E-06 -0.306669871 6.1E-08
0.7 0.083106381 0.083112781 6.4E-06 0.083106445 6.4E-08
0.8 0.114050189 0.114056889 6.7E-06 0.114050256 6.7E-08
0.9 -0.256093348 -0.256086348 7E-06 -0.256093278 7E-08
1.0 0.328882993 0.328890293 7.3E-06 0.328883066 7.3E-08

TABLE 4

ERROR CALCULATION FOR x2 (t )

Example 5

t Exact STHWS Leapfrog

Solution Solution Error Solution Error

0.1 -2.868118601 -2.868118001 6E-07 -2.868118595 6E-09
0.2 -0.145294494 -0.145293394 1.1E-06 -0.145294483 1.1E-08
0.3 -0.879794603 -0.879793003 1.6E-06 -0.879794587 1.6E-08
0.4 -1.897974291 -1.897972191 2.1E-06 -1.89797427 2.1E-08
0.5 0.382208613 0.382211213 2.6E-06 0.382208639 2.6E-08

6 CONCLUSION

The obtained discrete solution of the numerical examples shows the efficiency of the Leapfrog method for solving the stiff delay and singular delay systems. From the Figures 1 - 4, we can observe that for most of the problems, the absolute error is less (almost no error) in Leapfrog method when com- pared to the STHWS [6] which yields a little error, along with the exact solutions. From the Figures 1 - 4 and Tables 1 - 4, one can predict that the error is very less in Leapfrog method when compared to STHWS method [6]. Hence, the Leapfrog method is more suitable for studying the stiff delay and singu- lar delay systems.

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