Stability analysis for a delayed SIR model with a nonlinear incidence rate


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Luju Liu - School of Mathematics and Statistics, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, 471023, China. Yan Wang - College of Science, China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, 266580, China.


Abstract

We develop an SIR vector-bone epidemic model incorporating incubation time delay and the nonlinear incidence rate, where the growth of susceptibles is governed by the logistic equation. The threshold parameter \(R_0\) is used to determine whether the disease persists in the population. The model always has the trivial equilibrium and the disease-free equilibrium whereas admits the endemic equilibrium if \(R_0\) exceeds one. The disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if \(R_0\) is less than one, while the system is persistent if \(R_0\) is greater than one. Furthermore, by applying the time delay as a bifurcation parameter, the local stability of the endemic equilibrium is discussed and it loses stability and Hopf bifurcation occurs as the length of the time delay increases past \(\tau_0\) under certain conditions. An example is carried out to illustrate the main results.


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Luju Liu, Yan Wang, Stability analysis for a delayed SIR model with a nonlinear incidence rate, Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, 10 (2017), no. 11, 5834--5845

AMA Style

Liu Luju, Wang Yan, Stability analysis for a delayed SIR model with a nonlinear incidence rate. J. Nonlinear Sci. Appl. (2017); 10(11):5834--5845

Chicago/Turabian Style

Liu, Luju, Wang, Yan. "Stability analysis for a delayed SIR model with a nonlinear incidence rate." Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, 10, no. 11 (2017): 5834--5845


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