Bifurcation analysis of an epidemic model with nonlinear incidence

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 411-423

  Li, Guihua ^a,b   Wang, Wendi ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Bistability; Homoclinic; Limit cycle; Sensitive; Sigmoidal

Indexed keywords

BISTABILITY; HOMOCLINIC; LIMIT CYCLE; SENSITIVE; SIGMOIDAL;

DELTA SIGMA MODULATION;

HOPF BIFURCATION;

EID: 67649213965     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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