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doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019199

Spreading speed of a degenerate and cooperative epidemic model with free boundaries

Meng Zhao 1, , Wan-Tong Li 1,, and  Wenjie Ni 2,

1. 

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000, China
2. 

School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2351, Australia

Corresponding author

Received  January 2019 Revised  February 2019 Published  September 2019

This paper deals with the spreading speed of the disease described by a partially degenerate and cooperative epidemic model with free boundaries. We show that the spreading speed is determined by a semi-wave problem. To find such a semi-wave solution, we prove the existence of a monotone solution to a reduced ODE by an upper and lower solution approach. And then we establish the uniqueness of the semi-wave solution via the sliding method. It is demonstrated that the precise asymptotic spreading speed is less than the minimal speed of traveling waves.

Keywords: Asymptotic spreading speed, partially degenerate, cooperative, free boundary.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35K57, 35R35, 92D30.
Citation: Meng Zhao, Wan-Tong Li, Wenjie Ni. Spreading speed of a degenerate and cooperative epidemic model with free boundaries. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2019199
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[1]

I. Ahn, S. Beak and Z. Lin, The spreading fronts of an infective environment in a man-environment-man epidemic model, Appl. Math. Model., 40 (2016), 7082-7101.  doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2016.02.038.  Google Scholar

[2]

G. Bunting, Y. Du and K. Krakowski, Spreading speed revisited: analysis of a free boundary model, Netw. Heterog. Media, 7 (2012), 583-603.  doi: 10.3934/nhm.2012.7.583.  Google Scholar

[3]

V. Capasso and L. Maddalena, Convergence to equilibrium states for a reaction-diffusion system modeling the spatial spread of a class of bacterial and viral diseases, J. Math. Biol., 13 (1981/82), 173-184.  doi: 10.1007/BF00275212.  Google Scholar

[4]

V. Capasso and S. L. Paveri-Fontana, A mathematical model for the 1973 cholera epidemic in the European Mediterranean region, Rev. d'Epidemiol. Sante Publique, 27 (1979), 32-121.   Google Scholar

[5]

E.A. Coddington and N. Levinson, Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York-Toronto-London, 1955.  Google Scholar

[6]

Y. Du, Z. Guo and R. Peng, A diffusive logistic model with a free boundary in time-periodic environment, J. Funct. Anal., 265 (2013), 2089-2142.  doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2013.07.016.  Google Scholar

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Y. Du and Z. Lin, Spreading-vanishing dichotomy in the diffusive logistic model with a free boundary, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 42 (2010), 377-405.  doi: 10.1137/110822608.  Google Scholar

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[9]

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[10]

Y. Du, H. Matsuzawa and M. Zhou, Sharp estimate of the spreading speed determined by nonlinear free boundary problems, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 46 (2014), 375-396.  doi: 10.1137/130908063.  Google Scholar

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Y. Du, M. Wang and M. Zhou, Semi-wave and spreading speed for the diffusive competition model with a free boundary, J. Math. Pures Appl., 107 (2017), 253-287.  doi: 10.1016/j.matpur.2016.06.005.  Google Scholar

[12]

Y. Du and C. H. Wu, Spreading with two speeds and mass segregation in a diffusive competition system with free boundaries, Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, 57 (2018), Art. 52, 36 pp. doi: 10.1007/s00526-018-1339-5.  Google Scholar

[13]

J. Ge, K. I. Kim, Z. Lin and H. Zhu, A SIS reaction-diffusion-advection model in a low-risk and high-risk domain, J. Differential Equations, 259 (2015), 5486-5509.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2015.06.035.  Google Scholar

[14]

H. Gu, B. Lou and M. Zhou, Long time behavior of solutions of Fisher-KPP equation with advection and free boundaries, J. Funct. Anal., 269 (2015), 1714-1768.  doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2015.07.002.  Google Scholar

[15]

J. S. Guo and C. H. Wu, On a free boundary problem for a two-species weak competition system, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 24 (2012), 873-895.  doi: 10.1007/s10884-012-9267-0.  Google Scholar

[16]

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[17]

Z. Lin, A free boundary problem for a predator-prey model, Nonlinearity, 20 (2007), 1883-1892.  doi: 10.1088/0951-7715/20/8/004.  Google Scholar

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Z. Lin and H. Zhu, Spatial spreading model and dynamics of West Nile virus in birds and mosquitoes with free boundary, J. Math. Biol., 75 (2017), 1381-1409.  doi: 10.1007/s00285-017-1124-7.  Google Scholar

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J. Wang and L. Zhang, Invasion by an inferior or superior competitor: A diffusive competition model with a free boundary in a heterogeneous environment, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 423 (2015), 377-398.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2014.09.055.  Google Scholar

[20]

M. Wang, On some free boundary problems of the prey-predator model, J. Differential Equations, 256 (2014), 3365-3394.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2014.02.013.  Google Scholar

[21]

M. Wang and J. Zhao, Free boundary problems for a Lotka-Volterra competition system, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 26 (2014), 655-672.  doi: 10.1007/s10884-014-9363-4.  Google Scholar

[22]

M. Wang and J. Zhao, A free boundary problem for the predator-prey model with double free boundaries, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 29 (2017), 957-979.  doi: 10.1007/s10884-015-9503-5.  Google Scholar

[23]

M. Wang and Y. Zhang, Dynamics for a diffusive prey-predator model with different free boundaries, J. Differential Equations, 264 (2018), 3527-3558.  doi: 10.1016/j.jde.2017.11.027.  Google Scholar

[24]

Z. Wang, H. Nie and Y. Du, Asymptotic spreading speed for the weak competition system with a free boundary, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 39 (2019), 5223-5262.  doi: 10.3934/dcds.2019213.  Google Scholar

[25]

Z. Wang, H. Nie and Y. Du, Spreading speed for a West Nile virus model with free boundary, J. Math. Biol., 79 (2019), 433-466.  doi: 10.1007/s00285-019-01363-2.  Google Scholar

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J. Wu and X. Zou, Traveling wave fronts of reaction-diffusion systems with delay, J. Dynam. Differential Equations, 13 (2001), 651-687.  doi: 10.1023/A:1016690424892.  Google Scholar

[27]

X. Q. Zhao and W. Wang, Fisher waves in an epidemic model, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 4 (2004), 1117-1128.  doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2004.4.1117.  Google Scholar

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