Abstract
In this paper, we study the global dynamics of an epidemic model with vital dynamics and nonlinear incidence rate of saturated mass action. By carrying out global qualitative and bifurcation analyses, it is shown that either the number of infective individuals tends to zero as time evolves or there is a region such that the disease will be persistent if the initial position lies in the region and the disease will disappear if the initial position lies outside this region. When such a region exists, it is shown that the model undergoes a Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation, i.e., it exhibits a saddle-node bifurcation, Hopf bifurcations, and a homoclinic bifurcation. Existence of none, one or two limit cycles is also discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 135-163 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Journal of Differential Equations |
Volume | 188 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 10 2003 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Bifurcation
- Epidemic
- Global analysis
- Limit cycle
- Nonlinear incidence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analysis
- Applied Mathematics