AUTHOR=Taranets Roman , Vasylyeva Nataliya , Al-Azem Belgacem 

TITLE=Qualitative analysis of solutions for a degenerate partial differential equations model of epidemic spread dynamics

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/applied-mathematics-and-statistics/articles/10.3389/fams.2024.1383106

DOI=10.3389/fams.2024.1383106

ISSN=2297-4687

ABSTRACT=<p>Compartmental models are widely used in mathematical epidemiology to describe the dynamics of infectious diseases or in mathematical models of population genetics. In this study, we study a time-dependent Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible (SIS) Partial Differential Equation (PDE) model that is based on a diffusion-drift approximation of a probability density from a well-known discrete-time Markov chain model. This SIS-PDE model is conservative due to the degeneracy of the diffusion term at the origin. The main results of this article are the qualitative behavior of weak solutions, the dependence of the local asymptotic property of these solutions on initial data, and the existence of Dirac delta function type solutions. Moreover, we study the long-term behavior of solutions and confirm our analysis with numerical computations.</p>