A strongly nonlinear reaction diffusion model for a deterministic diffusive epidemic

DOI10.1007/BF03167379MaRDI QIDQ1894993zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Said Kouachi, Mokhtar Kirane

Publication date 16 February 1997

Published in Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03167379

zbMATH Keywords

large time behaviour uniqueness-existence theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear parabolic equations (35K55) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Epidemiology (92D30)

Review text

A mathematical model describing the spread of an infectious disease (or a rumour) in a confined spatially continuously distributed population is analyzed. The mathematical validity of the model is proved by means of a uniqueness-existence theorem. With \(u(t, x)\) and \(v(t, x)\) representing spatial densities of susceptibles and infectives, the model is described by the following system of strongly coupled reaction-diffusion equations for \(t> 0\), \(0< x< 1\): \[ u_t- \theta u_{xx}= - \beta u(\alpha v_{xx}+ v),\quad v_t- \varphi v_{xx}= \beta u(\alpha v_{xx}+ v)- \lambda v \] supplemented by boundary and initial conditions \(u_x(t, 0)= u_x(t, 1)= 0= v_x(t, 0)= v_x(t, 1)\) and \(u(0, x)= u_0(x)\geq 0\), \(v(0, x)= v_0(x)\geq 0\). The factor \(\alpha\) refers to the spatial influence of infectives, and \(\theta\) and \(\varphi\) to the migration-rates of susceptibles and infectives, respectively.

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