A Gillespie-Type Algorithm for Particle Based Stochastic Model on Lattice

In this thesis, I propose a general stochastic simulation algorithm for particle based lattice model using the concepts of Gillespie's stochastic simulation algorithm, which was originally designed for well-stirred systems. I describe the details about this method and analyze its complexity compared with the StochSim algorithm, another simulation algorithm originally proposed to simulate stochastic lattice model. I compare the performance of both algorithms with application to two different examples: the May-Leonard model and Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model. Comparison between the simulation results from both algorithms has validate our claim that our new proposed algorithm is comparable to the StochSim in simulation accuracy. I also compare the efficiency of both algorithms using the CPU cost of each code and conclude that the new algorithm is as efficient as the StochSim in most test cases, while performing even better for certain specific cases.