Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education
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Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education


Volume
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Volume 13, Issue 2


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Pages

451-474


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Article

Numerical Simulation of Oncolytic M1 Cancer Virotherapy Reaction-Diffusion Model by Collocation of B-Splines


Authors

Rohit Goel Affiliation:
Research Scholar, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida & Assistant Professor, Deshbandhu College (University of Delhi)
, R.c. Mittal Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
and Neha Ahlawat Affiliation:
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology


Abstract

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Invention of better cancer treatment strategies remained a burning topic of the research since decades. Oncolytic virotherapy being a targeted type therapy is an emerging technology that uses selective engineered viruses to treat cancerous malignancies. The dynamics of oncolytic M1 virotherapy with spatial effects and anti-tumour immune responses can better be studied and analysed with reaction-diffusion mathematical models. A reaction-diffusion mathematical model to characterize the dynamics of oncolytic M1 alphavirus in the cancer treatment virotherapy with immune responses is studied in this paper. A numerical simulation technique based on the collocation of cubic B-splines is proposed to approximate the solution of the considered reaction-diffusion model. Collocation forms of the partial differential equation results in a system of first order ordinary differential equations which in turn have been solved by Runge-Kutta method of order 4. The non-linearity of the model is being resolved without any transformation or linearization. The computed numerical results are in good agreement with those expected. Easy to apply and achieving accurate solutions in less CPU time are the key points of the present approach.


Keywords

Cancer, Oncolytic M1 virotherapy, Reaction-Diffusion model, Cubic B-splines, basis functions, Tri-diagonal matrix, Runge-Kutta (RK4) method


Citation

Goel, R., Mittal, R., & Ahlawat, N. (2022). Numerical simulation of oncolytic M1 cancer virotherapy reaction-diffusion model by collocation of b-splines. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 13(2), 451–474.

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