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Stability and bifurcation in an age-structured model with stocking rate and time delays

Shengqin Xu 1, , Chuncheng Wang 2,, and  Dejun Fan 2,,

1. 

Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai 264209, China
2. 

Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

* Corresponding authors

Received  November 2017 Revised  May 2018 Published  October 2018

In this paper, a predator-prey model with age structure, stocking rate and two delays is investigated. We show that Hopf bifurcation occurs when one of the time delay $τ$ crosses a sequence of critical values, by applyingHopf bifurcation theory for abstract Cauchy problems with non-dense domain. Numerical simulations are included to verify our results and a summary is also given.

Keywords: Hopf bifurcation, age structure, time delays, stocking rate, non-densely defined, integrated semigroup.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B32; Secondary: 92D30.
Citation: Shengqin Xu, Chuncheng Wang, Dejun Fan. Stability and bifurcation in an age-structured model with stocking rate and time delays. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2019, 24 (6) : 2535-2549. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018264
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M. Adimy, H. Bouzahir and K. Ezzinbi, Existence for a class of partial functional differential equations with infinite delay, Non. Anal., 46 (2001), 91-112.  doi: 10.1016/S0362-546X(99)00447-2.  Google Scholar

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J. Cao and R. Yuan, Bifurcation analysis in a modified Lesile-Gower model with Holling type Ⅱ functional response and delay, Nonl. Dyn., 84 (2016), 1341-1352.  doi: 10.1007/s11071-015-2572-5.  Google Scholar

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J. Chu, Z. Liu, P. Magal and S. Ruan, Normal form for an age structured model, J. Dyn. Diff. Equ., 28 (2016), 733-761.  doi: 10.1007/s10884-015-9500-8.  Google Scholar

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Y. Du and Y. Lou, S-Shaped Global Bifurcation Curve and Hopf Bifurcation of Positive Solutions to a Predator-Prey Model, J. Diff. Equ., 144 (1998), 390-440.  doi: 10.1006/jdeq.1997.3394.  Google Scholar

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[13]

Z. Liu and N. Li, Stability and bifurcation in a predator-prey model with age structure and delays, J. Non. Sci., 25 (2015), 937-957.  doi: 10.1007/s00332-015-9245-x.  Google Scholar

[14]

Z. Liu, P. Magal and S. Ruan, Hopf bifurcation for non-densely defined Cauchy problems, Z. Angew. Math. Phys., 62 (2011), 191-222.  doi: 10.1007/s00033-010-0088-x.  Google Scholar

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Z. Liu, P. Magal and S. Ruan, Normal forms for semilinear equations with non-dense domain with applications to age structured models, J. Diff. Equ., 257 (2014), 921-1011.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2014.04.018.  Google Scholar

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P. Magal and S. Ruan, On integrated semigroups and age structured models in Lp spaces, Diff. Integ. Equ., 20 (2007), 197-239.   Google Scholar

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P. Magal and S. Ruan, On semilinear Cauchy problems with non-dense domain, Adv. Differ. Equ., 14 (2009), 1041-1084.   Google Scholar

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P. Magal and S. Ruan, Center manifolds for semilinear equations with non-dense domain and apllications on Hopf bifurcation in age structured models, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc., 202 (2009), ⅵ+71 pp. doi: 10.1090/S0065-9266-09-00568-7.  Google Scholar

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P. Magal and S. Ruan, Sustained oscillations in an evolutionary epidemiological model of influenza: A drift, Proc. R. Soc. A, 466 (2010), 965-992.  doi: 10.1098/rspa.2009.0435.  Google Scholar

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P. Magal and H. R. Thieme, Eventual compactness for a semiflow generated by nonlinear an age-structured models, Commun. Pure Appl. Anal., 3 (2004), 695-727.  doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2004.3.695.  Google Scholar

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J. Murray, Mathematical Biology I: An Introduction, Springer, 2002.  Google Scholar

[24]

Y. Song and J. Wei, Local Hopf bifurcation and global periodic solutions in a delayed predator-prey system, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 301 (2005), 1-21.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2004.06.056.  Google Scholar

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Y. Su, S. Ruan and J. Wei, Periodicity and synchronization in blood-stage malaria infection, J. Math. Biol., 63 (2011), 557-574.  doi: 10.1007/s00285-010-0381-5.  Google Scholar

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H. Tang and Z. Liu, Hopf bifurcation for a predator-prey model with age structure, Appl. Math. Model., 40 (2016), 726-737.  doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2015.09.015.  Google Scholar

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H. R. Thieme, Integrated semigroups and integrated solutions to abstract Cauchy problems, J. Math. Ana. Appl., 152 (1990), 416-447.  doi: 10.1016/0022-247X(90)90074-P.  Google Scholar

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W. Wang, G. Mulone, F. Salemi and V. Salone, Permanence and Stability of a Stage-Structured Predator-Prey Model, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 262 (2001), 499-528.  doi: 10.1006/jmaa.2001.7543.  Google Scholar

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G. Zhu and J. Wei, Global stability and bifurcation analysis of a delayed predator-prey system with prey immigration, Elect. J. Diff. Equ., 13 (2016), Paper No. 13, 20 pp.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  A solution of (1) that tends to the positive steady states when $\tau = 3.5 < \tau_0$
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