Effect of noise on the pattern formation in an epidemic model

Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1168-1179

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

^a NORTH UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemic model; Noise; Pattern formation; Transition

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIC MODELS; MODEL DYNAMICS; NOISE; NOISE INTENSITIES; NOISE-CONTROLLED; NUMERICAL EVIDENCE; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PATTERN FORMATION; STRIPE PATTERN; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS; TRANSITION;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 77956201734     PISSN: 0749159X     EISSN: 10982426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/num.20483     Document Type: Article

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