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2019, Volume 16, Issue 5: 5991-6014. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019300
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Dynamics of an epidemic model with advection and free boundaries

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    School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000, P.R. China
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    Department of Mathematics, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, P.R. China
  • Received: 01 April 2019 Accepted: 26 May 2019 Published: 27 June 2019

  • This paper deals with the propagation dynamics of an epidemic model, which is modeled by a partially degenerate reaction-diffusion-advection system with free boundaries and sigmoidal function. We focus on the effect of small advection on the propagation dynamics of the epidemic disease. At first, the global existence and uniqueness of solution are obtained. And then, the spreading-vanishing dichotomy and the criteria for spreading and vanishing are given. Our results imply that the small advection make the disease spread more difficult.

    Citation: Meng Zhao, Wan-Tong Li, Yang Zhang. Dynamics of an epidemic model with advection and free boundaries[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(5): 5991-6014. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019300

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  • This paper deals with the propagation dynamics of an epidemic model, which is modeled by a partially degenerate reaction-diffusion-advection system with free boundaries and sigmoidal function. We focus on the effect of small advection on the propagation dynamics of the epidemic disease. At first, the global existence and uniqueness of solution are obtained. And then, the spreading-vanishing dichotomy and the criteria for spreading and vanishing are given. Our results imply that the small advection make the disease spread more difficult.


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