Dynamics and Optimal Control of a Monod–Haldane Predator–Prey System with Mixed Harvesting

Abstract

This paper investigates the dynamics and optimal control of the Monod–Haldane predator–prey system with mixed harvesting that combines both continuous and impulsive harvestings. The periodic solution of the prey-free is studied and the local stability condition is obtained. The boundedness of solutions, the permanence of the system, and the existence of nontrivial periodic solution are studied. With the change of parameters, the system appears with a stable nontrivial periodic solution when the prey-free periodic solution loses stability. Numerical simulations show that the system has complex dynamical behaviors via bifurcation diagrams. Further, the maximum yield problem of the harvested system is studied, which is transformed into a nonlinear programming problem and solved by the method of combined multiple shooting and collocation.