Conference paper · Book chapter
Smoothing a Piecewise-Smooth: An Example from Plankton Population Dynamics
In this work we discuss a piecewise-smooth dynamical system inspired by plankton observations and constructed for one predator switching its diet between two different types of prey. We then discuss two smooth formulations of the piecewise-smooth model obtained by using a hyperbolic tangent function and adding a dimension to the system.
We compare model behaviour of the three systems and show an example case where the steepness of the switch is determined from a comparison with data on freshwater plankton.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Springer |
Year: | 2016 |
Pages: | 147-151 |
Proceedings: | Intensive Research Program on Advances in Nonsmooth Dynamics 2016 |
Series: | Trends in Mathematics |
Journal subtitle: | Nonsmooth Dynamics |
ISBN: | 331955641X , 331955641x , 3319556428 , 9783319556413 and 9783319556420 |
Types: | Conference paper and Book chapter |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-55642-0_26 |