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

Table 2

Spatial mesh	Time-step		Macro error			CPU time (s)
			0.02	0.00004	0.1				0.0164
0.02	0.00005	0.125			0.0181
0.02	0.0001	0.25		0.0016	0.0237
0.02	0.00016	0.4		0.0025	0.0280	563.2970
0.02	0.0002	0.5		0.0031	0.0302	435.2030
0.02	0.00032	0.8		0.0045	0.0349	263.7350
0.02	0.0004	1.0		0.0054	0.0371	224.6560
0.02	0.0005	1.25		0.0064	0.0394	172.6880