A Numerical Method for Solving the Mathematical Model of Controlled Drug Release

Abstract

Over the past few decades, significant medical advances have been made in the area of drug delivery with the development of controlled release dosage forms. Controlled release formulations bring scientists in different fields to work together with the common aim of realizing more and more effective products. For this purpose, the use of mathematical modeling turns out to be very useful as this approach enables, in the best case, the prediction of release kinetics before the release systems are realized. In this article, we have introduced a Taylor collocation method, which is based on collocation method for solving initial-boundary value problem describing the Fick’s second law.