Local and global bifurcations in an SIRS epidemic model

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 534-547

  Song, Zigen ^a   Xu, Jian ^a   Li, Qunhong ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Epidemic model; Limit cycle; Saturated incidence; Stability

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BIFURCATION; CODIMENSION TWO BIFURCATION; DISEASE-FREE EQUILIBRIUM; EPIDEMIC MODEL; EXISTENCE AND STABILITY; GLOBAL BIFURCATIONS; HOMOCLINIC BIFURCATIONS; INCIDENCE RATE; LIMIT CYCLE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETER VALUES; PERIODIC SOLUTION; QUALITATIVE METHOD; SADDLE NODE BIFURCATION; SATURATED INCIDENCE; SIRS EPIDEMIC MODEL;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

HOPF BIFURCATION;

EID: 67649170450     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2009.04.027     Document Type: Article

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