Abstract
This paper is concerned with an SIS epidemic reaction-diffusion model. The purpose of this paper is to derive some effects of the spatial heterogeneity of the recovery rate on the total population of infected and the reproduction number. The proof is based on an application of our previous result on the unboundedness of the ratio of the species to the resource for a diffusive logistic equation. Our pure mathematical result can be epidemically interpreted as that a regional difference in the recovery rate can make the infected population grow in the case when the reproduction number is slightly larger than one.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 888 |
| Journal | Mathematics |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2021 Apr 2 |
Keywords
- Bessel functions
- Diffusive logistic equation
- Endemic equilibrium
- Radial solutions
- Reaction-diffusion systems
- SIS models
- Spatial heterogeneity
- The reproduction number
- The sub-super solution method
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Mathematics(all)