Spatial spread of rabies revisited: Influence of age-dependent diffusion on nonlinear dynamics

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 138-163

  Ou, Chunhua ^a   Wu, Jianhong ^b  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disease modeling; Fronts; Minimal wave speed; Nonlocal; Reaction; Reaction diffusion; Stability; Structured model; Time delay; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

DISEASE MODELING; MINIMAL WAVE SPEED; REACTION DIFFUSION; STRUCTURED MODELS; TRAVELING WAVES;

DISEASES;

EID: 33846851864     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/060651318     Document Type: Article

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