Heterogeneous viral environment in a HIV spatial model

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Abstract: We consider the basic model of virus dynamics in the modeling of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), in a 2D heterogenous environment. It consists of two ODEs for the non-infected and infected CD4+ T lymphocytes, T and I, and a parabolic PDE for the virus V. We define a new parameter lambda0 as an eigenvalue of some Sturm-Liouville problem, which takes the heterogenous reproductive ratio into account. For lambda0<0 the trivial non-infected solution is the only equilibrium. When lambda0>0, the former becomes unstable whereas there is only one positive infected equilibrium. Considering the model as a dynamical system, we prove the existence of a universal attractor. Finally, in the case of an alternating structure of viral sources, we define a homogenized limiting environment. The latter justifies the classical approach via ODE systems.


The authors study a partly dissipative PDE-ODE system modeling the dynamics of o particular virus (HIV). Considering the model as a dynamical system, the authors prove the existence of a positively invariant region. For the case of an ``alternating structure of viral sources, an homogeneous limiting environment is defined, matching the classical ode-systems approach to HIV dynamics.




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