Dynamics of an epidemic model with advection and free boundaries

Meng Zhao1, Wan-Tong Li1, Yang Zhang2

  • 1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730000, P.R. China.

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