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December  2016, 21(10): 3723-3742. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016118

Traveling waves in an SEIR epidemic model with the variable total population

Zhiting Xu 1,

1. 

School of Mathematical Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510631

Received  December 2015 Revised  February 2016 Published  November 2016

In the present paper, we propose a simple diffusive SEIR epidemic model where the total population is variable. We first give the explicit formula of the basic reproduction number $\mathcal{R}_0$ for the model. And hence, we show that if $\mathcal{R}_0>1$, then there exists a constant $c^*>0$ such that for any $c>c^*$, the model admits a nontrivial traveling wave solution, and if $\mathcal{R}_0<1$ and $c>0$ (or, $\mathcal{R}_0>1$ and $c\in(0,c^*)$), then the model has no nontrivial traveling wave solution. Consequently, we obtain the full information about the existence and non-existence of traveling wave solutions of the model by determined by the constants $\mathcal{R}_0$ and $c^*$. The proof of the main results is mainly based on Schauder fixed point theorem and Laplace transform.
Keywords: Laplace transform., the basic reproduction number, SEIR epidemic model, Traveling wave solutions, Schauder fixed point theorem.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35C07, 92D30; Secondary: 35K5.
Citation: Zhiting Xu. Traveling waves in an SEIR epidemic model with the variable total population. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2016, 21 (10) : 3723-3742. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2016118
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[1]

Z. Bai and S.-L. Wu, Traveling waves in a delayed SIR epidemic model with nonlinear incidence,, Appl. Math. Comput., 263 (2015), 221.  doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2015.04.048.  Google Scholar

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T. Zhang and W. Wang, Existence of thaveling wave solutions for influenza model with treatment,, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 419 (2014), 469.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.04.068.  Google Scholar

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