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A spatial epidemic model with a moving boundary
1Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, 37403, USA.
Abstract:
We present a new mathematical model to investigate the spatial spread of an infectious disease. The model consists of a nonlinear PDE system with an unknown velocity field, defined on an epidemic domain that changes with time. The moving boundary of the domain represents the wavefront of the epidemic. We conduct an equilibrium analysis to the simplified models represented by ODE systems. We also perform a numerical study on the original PDE system for a range of scenarios, including one under a realistic epidemic setting.
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