function sol = exer3 % exer3, exer3f of tutorial. % Wheldon's model of chronic granuloctic leukemia % from N. MacDonald, Time Lags in Biological Models, % Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1978. global alpha beta gamma delta lambda mu omega alpha = 1.1e10; beta = 1e-12; gamma = 1.25; delta = 1; lambda = 10; mu = 4e-8; omega = 2.43; for tau = [7, 20] sol = dde23(@exer3f,tau,[100; 100],[0, 200]); figure plot(sol.x,sol.y) title(['Leukemia model for \tau = ',num2str(tau),'.']) xlabel('time t') ylabel('y(t)') end %===================================================== function yp = exer3f(t,y,Z) global alpha beta gamma delta lambda mu omega ylag = Z(:,1); yp = [0; 0]; yp(1) = alpha/(1 + beta*ylag(1)^gamma) - ... lambda*y(1)/(1 + mu*y(2)^delta); yp(2) = lambda*y(1)/(1 + mu*y(2)^delta) - omega*y(2);