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Analysis and Dynamically Consistent Numerical Schemes for the SIS Model and Related Reaction Diffusion Equation

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dc.creator Lubuma, Jean M.S.
dc.creator Mureithi, Eunice
dc.creator Terefe, Yibeltal A.
dc.date 2016-07-19T13:02:00Z
dc.date 2016-07-19T13:02:00Z
dc.date 2011-10
dc.date.accessioned 2018-03-27T08:58:00Z
dc.date.available 2018-03-27T08:58:00Z
dc.identifier Lubuma, J.S., Mureithi, E. and Terefe, Y.A., 2011, November. Analysis and dynamically consistent numerical schemes for the SIS model and related reaction diffusion equation. In APPLICATION OF MATHEMATICS IN TECHNICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCES: 3rd International Conference—AMiTaNS'11 (Vol. 1404, No. 1, pp. 168-175). AIP Publishing.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3277
dc.identifier 10.1063/1.3659917
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/3277
dc.description Full text can be accessed at http://scitation.aip.org/docserver/fulltext/aip/proceeding/aipcp/1404/10.1063/1.3659917/1.3659917.pdf?expires=1468931415&id=id&accname=2090908&checksum=D2AE46D969CF183573A70C84B27570A4
dc.description The classical SIS epidemiological model is extended in two directions: (a) The number of adequate contacts per infective in unit time is assumed to be a function of the total population in such a way that this number grows less rapidly as the total population increases; (b) A diffusion term is added to the SIS model and this leads to a reaction diffusion equation, which governs the spatial spread of the disease. With the parameter R0 representing the basic reproduction number, it is shown that R0 = 1 is a forward bifurcation for the model (a), with the disease-free equilibrium being globally asymptotic stable when R0 is less than 1. In the case when R0 is greater than 1, traveling wave solutions are found for the model (b). Nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) schemes that replicate the dynamics of the continuous models are presented. In particular, for the model (a), a nonstandard version of the Runge-Kutta method having high order of convergence is investigated. Numerical experiments that support the theory are provided.
dc.language en
dc.subject Epidemiological models
dc.subject Local/global stability
dc.subject Nonstandard finite difference scheme
dc.subject Reaction diffusion equation
dc.title Analysis and Dynamically Consistent Numerical Schemes for the SIS Model and Related Reaction Diffusion Equation
dc.type Journal Article


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