In:
The ANZIAM Journal, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 55, No. 2 ( 2013-10), p. 93-108
Kurzfassung:
There is much interest within the mathematical biology and statistical physics community in converting stochastic agent-based models for random walkers into a partial differential equation description for the average agent density. Here a collection of noninteracting biased random walkers on a one-dimensional lattice is considered. The usual master equation approach requires that two continuum limits, involving three parameters, namely step length, time step and the random walk bias, approach zero in a specific way. We are interested in the case where the two limits are not consistent. New results are obtained using a Fokker–Planck equation and the results are highly dependent on the simulation update schemes. The theoretical results are confirmed with examples. These findings provide insight into the importance of updating schemes to an accurate macroscopic description of stochastic local movement rules in agent-based models when the lattice spacing represents a physical object such as cell diameter.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
1446-1811
,
1446-8735
DOI:
10.1017/S1446181113000369
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publikationsdatum:
2013
ZDB Id:
2008847-4
