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Spreading speeds and traveling wave solutions of diffusive vector-borne disease models without monotonicity

Part of: Parabolic equations and systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2021

Xinjian Wang ,
Guo Lin  and
Shigui Ruan Open the ORCID record for Shigui Ruan [Opens in a new window]
Xinjian Wang
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, People's Republic of China (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected])
Guo Lin
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000, People's Republic of China (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected])
Shigui Ruan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33146, USA (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

Vector-borne diseases, such as chikungunya, dengue, malaria, West Nile virus, yellow fever and Zika, pose a major global public health problem worldwide. In this paper we investigate the propagation dynamics of diffusive vector-borne disease models in the whole space, which characterize the spatial expansion of the infected hosts and infected vectors. Due to the lack of monotonicity, the comparison principle cannot be applied directly to this system. We determine the spreading speed and minimal wave speed when the basic reproduction number of the corresponding kinetic system is larger than one. The spreading speed is mainly estimated by the uniform persistence argument and generalized principal eigenvalue. We also show that solutions converge locally uniformly to the positive equilibrium by employing two auxiliary monotone systems. Moreover, it is proven that the spreading speed is the minimal wave speed of travelling wave solutions. In particular, the uniqueness and monotonicity of travelling waves are obtained. When the basic reproduction number of the corresponding kinetic system is not larger than one, it is shown that solutions approach to the disease-free equilibrium uniformly and there is no travelling wave solutions. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to illustrate the analytical results.

Keywords

Diffusive vector-borne disease modelgeneralized principal eigenvalueasymptotic spreadingminimal wave speedupper and lower solutions

MSC classification

Primary: 35K45: Initial value problems for second-order parabolic systems
Secondary: 35K57: Reaction-diffusion equations 92D30: Epidemiology
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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 153 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 137 - 166
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