Special Session 4: Delay and Functional Differential Equations and Applications

DELAY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND APPLICATIONS TO BIOLOGY

Fathalla Rihan
United Arab Emirates University
United Arab Emirates
Co-Author(s):    Fathalla A. Rihan
Abstract:
Recently much attention has been given to mathematical modeling of real-life phenomena using differential equations with memory, such as delay differential equations (DDEs). This is because introducing memory terms in a differential model significantly increases the complexity of the model. Such a class of DDEs is widely used for analysis and predictions in various areas of life sciences and modern topics in population dynamics, computer science, epidemiology, immunology, physiology, and neural networks. In this talk, we provide a wide range of delay differential models with a richer mathematical framework (compared with ODEs) for analyzing biosystems. Qualitative and quantitative features of DDEs are discussed. Some numerical simulations are also provided to show the effectiveness of the theoretical results.