
doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019380
pmid: 31698629
We estimate the spreading speeds in diffusive epidemic models with nonlocal delays, nonlinear incidence rate and constant recruitment rate. The purpose is to model the process that the infective invades the habitat of the susceptible, and they coexist eventually. In order to focus on our idea, a system with a nonlinear incidence rate is firstly studied, which implies a saturation level of the infective individuals and monotone incidence rate. When the initial value of the infective has nonempty compact support, we prove the rough spreading speed that equals the minimal wave speed of traveling wave solutions in the known results. Then for a general (nonmonotone) incidence rate, we obtain the spreading speeds by constructing auxiliary systems admitting a monotone incidence rate, and prove the convergence of solutions on any compact spatial interval. Furthermore, some numerical examples are given to estimate the invasion speed and show the nontrivial effect of time delay and spatial nonlocality, which implies that the stronger spatial nonlocality leads to larger spreading speeds.
Time Factors, Epidemiology, PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences, Incidence, Population Dynamics, auxiliary equation, asymptotic spreading, Communicable Diseases, Models, Biological, nonmonotone system, Nonlinear Dynamics, QA1-939, Humans, Computer Simulation, Epidemics, TP248.13-248.65, Mathematics, Algorithms, Biotechnology, Probability
Time Factors, Epidemiology, PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences, Incidence, Population Dynamics, auxiliary equation, asymptotic spreading, Communicable Diseases, Models, Biological, nonmonotone system, Nonlinear Dynamics, QA1-939, Humans, Computer Simulation, Epidemics, TP248.13-248.65, Mathematics, Algorithms, Biotechnology, Probability
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