NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF DENGUE FEVER (SIR MODEL) USING DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORM METHOD, MULTI-STEP DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORM METHOD AND RK4 METHOD

Abstract

This study investigates the application of the differential transformation method(DTM), multi-step differential transform method(MsDTM) with step-size and RK4 method (Mathematica) for finding the numerical solution of the SIR model of dengue fever in epidemiology. This model is a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations that have no analytic solution. Both the methods DTM and MsDTM are applied directly without any linearization, perturbation or discretization in the model equations to obtain semi-analytic solutions. The accuracy of the MSDTM is excellent and comparable to the RK4 method of Mathematica.