Browsing Philosophiae Doctor - PhD (Mathematics) by Issue Date
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Codes, graphs and designs from maximal subgroups of alternating groups
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)The main theme of this thesis is the construction of linear codes from adjacency matrices or sub-matrices of adjacency matrices of regular graphs. We first examine the binary codes from the row span of biadjacency ... -
An analytical model for assessing the knowledge of statistical procedures amongst postgraduate students in a higher educational environment
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Over the past decades, the use and application of statistical concepts for university students have been a big challenge learned from their previous courses. Aftermath of democracy, South African higher education focused ... -
Mathematical modeling of the transmission dynamics of malaria in South Sudan
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Malaria is a common infection in tropical areas, transmitted between humans through female anopheles mosquito bites as it seeks blood meal to carry out egg production. The infection forms a direct threat to the lives of ... -
Robust computational methods to simulate slow-fast dynamical systems governed by predator-prey models
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Numerical approximations of multiscale problems of important applications in ecology are investigated. One of the class of models considered in this work are singularly perturbed (slow-fast) predator-prey systems which ... -
Quasi-uniform and syntopogenous structures on categories
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)In a category C with a proper (E; M)-factorization system for morphisms, we further investigate categorical topogenous structures and demonstrate their prominent role played in providing a uni ed approach to the theory ... -
Interior operators and their applications
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Categorical closure operators were introduced by Dikranjan and Giuli in [DG87] and then developed by these authors and Tholen in [DGT89]. These operators have played an important role in the development of Categorical ... -
Stochastic modeling of an HIV/AIDS epidemic with treatment
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to be among the most devastating diseases in human history despite the new scientific advances and serious public health interventions. The greatest burden of HIV/AIDS is still in sub-Saharan ... -
Mathematical models for optimal management of bank capital, reserves and liquidity
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The aim of this study is to construct and propose continuous-time mathematical models for optimal management of bank capital, reserves and liquidity. This aim emanates from the global financial crisis of 2007 − 2009. In ... -
Fractional Black-Scholes equations and their robust numerical simulations
(University of Western Cape, 2020)Conventional partial differential equations under the classical Black-Scholes approach have been extensively explored over the past few decades in solving option pricing problems. However, the underlying Efficient Market ... -
Measurements of edge uncolourability in cubic graphs
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)The history of the pursuit of uncolourable cubic graphs dates back more than a century. This pursuit has evolved from the slow discovery of individual uncolourable cubic graphs such as the famous Petersen graph and the ... -
Efficient Variable Mesh Techniques to solve Interior Layer Problems
(University of Western Cape, 2020)Singularly perturbed problems have been studied extensively over the past few years from different perspectives. The recent research has focussed on the problems whose solutions possess interior layers. These interior ... -
Fractional black-scholes equations and their robust numerical simulations
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Conventional partial differential equations under the classical Black-Scholes approach have been extensively explored over the past few decades in solving option pricing problems. However, the underlying Efficient Market ... -
Mathematical modeling of TB disease dynamics in a crowded population.
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection which is a major cause of death worldwide. TB is a curable disease, however the bacterium can become resistant to the first line treatment against the disease. This leads to a disease ... -
High Accuracy Fitted Operator Methods for Solving Interior Layer Problems
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Fitted operator finite difference methods (FOFDMs) for singularly perturbed problems have been explored for the last three decades. The construction of these numerical schemes is based on introducing a fitting factor ... -
Robust numerical methods to solve differential equations arising in cancer modeling
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)Cancer is a complex disease that involves a sequence of gene-environment interactions in a progressive process that cannot occur without dysfunction in multiple systems. From a mathematical point of view, the sequence ... -
Graphs of integral distance and their properties
(University of Western Cape, 2021)Understanding the geometries of points in space has been attractive to mathematicians for ages. As a model, twelve years ago, Kurz and Meyer [32] considered point sets in the m-dimensional a ne space Fmq over a nite ... -
Analysis and robust simulation of mathematical models of HIV and Leishmaniasis co-infection
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The purpose of this thesis is the theoretical and numerical study of epidemiological models of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL) and human immunode ciency virus (HIV) coinfection. We study these models theoretically and design ... -
Analysis and simulation of some ecological models describing weed-water hyacinth dynamics in Lake Tana, Ethiopia
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The water hyacinth plant is notorious for being the world’s worst aquatic weed. In Ethiopia, it invades lake Tana which is the largest lake in Ethiopia. This is attracting attention of many researchers including mathematical ... -
Reliable numerical simulations of problems for pricing real estate derivatives
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The globalisation of nancial systems has presented new challenges to investing in real estate assets. For example, any crisis occurring in one real estate market will have an adverse e ect on other markets regardless ... -
Mathematical modeling of tuberculosis epidemiology in Ethiopia
(University of the Western Cape, 2024)Tuberculosis (TB) is currently one of the most severe public health issues in Ethiopia and many other countries. Despite demanding efforts having been made by governmental and nongovernmental organizations to eliminate ...