Uso de métodos numéricos na resolução de uma equação diferencial ordinária

• João Nascimento UFAL
• Valdinei Santos UFAL
• Elthon Oliveira UFAL

Abstract

Numeric method is a mathematical tool used to solve numerical problems. This tool is commonly used to automate the solution of analytically solved mathematical equations. In this article, an ordinary differential equation that models Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is solved. BSE is a fatal degenerative disease, that causes the death of neural cells in its development process. In the paper presented here, three numerical methods were used. For each of them, five different scenarios were analyzed, their respective orders of complexity were calculated and their similarities with the solution found in the original work of BSE were compared.

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