The dynamics of a degenerate epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion and free boundaries

Title
The dynamics of a degenerate epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion and free boundaries
Publication Date
2020-08-05
Author(s)
Zhao, Meng
Zhang, Yang
Li, Wan-Tong
Du, Yihong
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1235-0636
Email: ydu@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:ydu
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Academic Press
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1016/j.jde.2020.02.029
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/31761
Abstract

We consider an epidemic model with nonlocal diffusion and free boundaries, which describes the evolution of an infectious agents with nonlocal diffusion and the infected humans without diffusion, where humans get infected by the agents, and infected humans in return contribute to the growth of the agents. The model can be viewed as a nonlocal version of the free boundary model studied by Ahn, Beak and Lin, with its origin tracing back to Capasso et al. We prove that the problem has a unique solution defined for all t > 0, and its long-time dynamical behaviour is governed by a spreading-vanishing dichotomy. Sharp criteria for spreading and vanishing are also obtained, which reveal significant differences from the local diffusion model in. Depending on the choice of the kernel function in the nonlocal diffusion operator, it is expected that the nonlocal model here may have accelerated spreading, which would contrast sharply to the model of, where the spreading has finite speed whenever spreading happens.

Link
Citation
Journal of Differential Equations, 269(4), p. 1-30
ISSN
1090-2732
0022-0396
Start page
1
End page
30

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