Special Session 82: Dissipative Systems and Applications

Dynamics of an SIS epidemic model with population outflow on the boundary
Yu Jin
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
USA
Co-Author(s):    Yaru Hu, Jinfeng Wang
Abstract:
We consider a reaction-diffusion SIS epidemic model with population outflow on the boundary in a spatially heterogeneous environment. The main feature of our model is that the total population is variable. We introduce a basic reproduction number and use it to establish threshold-type results on the global dynamics. In particular, our highlight is that the introduction of population outflow on the boundary tends to suppress the persistence of the disease to some extent.