An Efficient Explicit Finite-Difference Scheme for Simulating Coupled Biomass Growth on Nutritive Substrates

Table 1

Spatial mesh	Time-step		Macro error			CPU time (s)
			0.02	0.00004	0.1		0.0017	0.0015	0.0014
0.02	0.00005	0.125	0.0019	0.0017	0.0016
0.02	0.0001	0.25	0.0030	0.0028	0.0027	857.3280
0.02	0.00016	0.4	0.0043	0.0041	0.0040	536.7030
0.02	0.0002	0.5	0.0052	0.0050	0.0049	425.5460
0.02	0.00032	0.8	0.0078	0.0076	0.0075	259.5790
0.02	0.0004	1.0	0.0095	0.0094	0.0093	209.6880
0.02	0.0005	1.25	0.0117	0.0116	0.0115	169.1560