Bifurcations of an sirs epidemic model with nonlinear incidence rate

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 93-112

  Hu, Zhixing ^a   Bi, Ping ^b   Ma, Wanbiao ^a   Ruan, Shigui ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

Bogdanov Takens bifurcation; Hopf bifur cation; Nonlinear incidence rate; SIRS epidemic model; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651226178     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.93     Document Type: Article

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