Bifurcation and chaos in an epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rates

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 216, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1226-1234

  Li, Li ^a,b   Sun, Gui Quan ^a   Jin, Zhen ^a  

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b TAIYUAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Chaos; Discrete time; Epidemic model; Flip bifurcation; Hopf bifurcation; Nonlinear incidence rates; Rich dynamics; Transcritical bifurcation

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE-TIME; EPIDEMIC MODELS; NONLINEAR INCIDENCE RATES; RICH DYNAMICS; TRANSCRITICAL BIFURCATION;

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

HOPF BIFURCATION;

EID: 77949918121     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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