Research Article
Dynamical Behaviors of a Fractional-Order Three Dimensional
Prey-Predator Model
Noor S. Sh. Barhoom and Sadiq Al-Nassir
Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
Correspondence should be addressed to Sadiq Al-Nassir; sadiq.n@sc.uobaghdad.edu.iq
Received 14 September 2021; Revised 21 October 2021; Accepted 27 November 2021; Published 15 December 2021
Academic Editor: Jaume Giné
Copyright © 2021 Noor S. Sh. Barhoom and Sadiq Al-Nassir. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative
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In this paper, the dynamical behavior of a three-dimensional fractional-order prey-predator model is investigated with Holling
type III functional response and constant rate harvesting. It is assumed that the middle predator species consumes only the
prey species, and the top predator species consumes only the middle predator species. We also prove the boundedness, the
non-negativity, the uniqueness, and the existence of the solutions of the proposed model. Then, all possible equilibria are
determined, and the dynamical behaviors of the proposed model around the equilibrium points are investigated. Finally,
numerical simulations results are presented to confirm the theoretical results and to give a better understanding of the
dynamics of our proposed model.
1. Introduction
The most influential theme in ecology and mathematical
modeling is the dynamic of the relationship among species.
Many authors extended or modified the work of the Lotka
and Voltera model [1, 2], and they have investigated thse
topics widely by using ordinary differential equations or def-
erence equations, see [3–9], and references therein. Nowa-
days, authors formulate their mathematical models by
fractional order differential equation due to their ability to
give the precise description for various linear and nonlinear
phenomena [10–15]. The increasing of mathematical models
that based on fractional order differential equation has
recently obtained popularity in the studying the behavior
of biological models. Fractional-order differential equation
has been successfully used and applied to model many areas
of science, engineering, and phenomena that cannot be for-
mulated by other types of equations [10, 16]. In [12, 16–21],
authors have investigated the effects of the fractional order
differential equation on a prey predator model as well as
they also discussed the stability analysis of equilibrium
points of fractional order model with and without harvest-
ing, as well as the existence, uniqueness, and boundedness
of the solutions that are proved.
There are several different types of definitions of
fractional-order differential equation in the literatures [16,
22–25], for e.g., Caputo, Riemann-Litouville, Fabrizio, Mar-
echand,Grunwald-Letnikov, wayl, and Riesz fractional-order
derivatives. Throughout this work, we used the Caputo
fractional-order derivatives because it is not necessary to
define the initial conditions of fractional-order and its
fractional-order derivative of constant function is zero, as
well as the similarity of the initial conditions of fractional
order differential and the integer order ones [8]. This work
is organized as follows: in Section 2, some useful definitions
and concept that concern to the fractional order are pre-
sented. In Section 3, a three-dimensional fractional-order
prey-predator model is considered. The uniqueness and
boundedness as well as the nonnegativity of its solution are
proved. In Section 4, all the equilibrium points are deter-
mined, and the conditions to achieve its local stability are
set. In Section 5, numerical simulations are given to confirm
the theoretical results. Finally, conclusions are given in Sec-
tion 6.
Hindawi
Abstract and Applied Analysis
Volume 2021, Article ID 1366797, 10 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/1366797