The invasive dynamics of Aedes aegypti mosquito in a heterogeneous environment

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Abstract: A reaction-diffusion-advection model is proposed and investigated to understand the invasive dynamics of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The free boundary is introduced to model the expanding front of the invasive mosquitoes in a heterogenous environment. The threshold R0D for the model with Dirichlet boundary condition is defined and the threshold R0F(t) for the free boundary problem is introduced, and the long-time behavior of positive solutions to the reaction-diffusion-advection system is discussed. Sufficient conditions for the mosquitoes to be eradicated or to spread are given. We show that, if R0F(infty)leq1, the mosquitoes always vanish, and if R0F(t0)geq1 for some t0geq0, the mosquitoes must spread, while if R0F(0)<1<R0F(infty), the spreading or vanishing of the mosquitoes depends on the initial number of mosquitoes, or mosquitoes' invasive ability on the free boundary.





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