Incompressible non‐Newtonian fluids: time asymptotic behaviour of weak solutions

We study the asymptotic behaviour in time of incompressible non‐Newtonian fluids in the whole space assuming that initial data also belong to L¹. Firstly, we consider the weak solution to the power‐law model with non‐zero external forces and we find the asymptotic behaviour in time of this solution in the same class of existence and uniqueness with p?. Secondly, we are interested in the asymptotic behaviour of weak solutions to the second grade model, and finally, we deal with the asymptotic behaviour in time of weak solutions to a simplified model of viscoelastic fluids of the Oldroyd type. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Concentration profile of endemic equilibrium of a reaction–diffusion–advection SIS epidemic model

Cui and Lou (J Differ Equ 261:3305–3343, 2016) proposed a reaction–diffusion–advection SIS epidemic model in heterogeneous environments, and derived interesting results on the stability of the DFE (disease-free equilibrium) and the existence of EE (endemic equilibrium) under various conditions. In this paper, we are interested in the asymptotic profile of the EE (when it exists) in the three cases: (i) large advection; (ii) small diffusion of the susceptible population; (iii) small diffusion of the infected population. We prove that in case (i), the density of both the susceptible and infected populations concentrates only at the downstream behaving like a delta function; in case (ii), the density of the susceptible concentrates only at the downstream behaving like a delta function and the density of the infected vanishes on the entire habitat, and in case (iii), the density of the susceptible is positive while the density of the infected vanishes on the entire habitat. Our results show that in case (ii) and case (iii), the asymptotic profile is essentially different from that in the situation where no advection is present. As a consequence, we can conclude that the impact of advection on the spatial distribution of population densities is significant.     

Stochastic dynamics of an HIV/AIDS epidemic model with treatment

Abstract

We investigate a stochastic HIV/AIDS epidemic model with treatment. The model allows for two stages of infection namely the asymptomatic phase and the symptomatic phase. We prove existence of global positive solutions. We show that the solutions are stochastically ultimately bounded and stochastically permanent. We also study asymptotic behaviour of the solution to the stochastic model around the disease-free equilibrium of the underlying deterministic model. Our theoretical results are illustrated by way of numerical simulations.     

Asymptotics of Partial Density Functions for Divisors

We study the asymptotic behaviour of the partial density function associated to sections of a positive hermitian line bundle that vanish to a particular order along a fixed divisor Y. Assuming the data in question is invariant under an \(S^1\)-action (locally around Y) we prove that this density function has a distributional asymptotic expansion that is in fact smooth upon passing to a suitable real blow-up. Moreover we recover the existence of the “forbidden region” R on which the density function is exponentially small, and prove that it has an “error-function” behaviour across the boundary \(\partial R\). As an illustrative application, we use this to study a certain natural function that can be associated to a divisor in a Kähler manifold.     

Asymptotic of the Critical Value of the Large-Dimensional SIR Epidemic on Clusters

In this paper we are concerned with the susceptible-infective-removed (SIR) epidemic on open clusters of bond percolation on the square lattice. For the SIR model, a susceptible vertex is infected at rate proportional to the number of infective neighbors, while an infective vertex becomes removed at a constant rate. A removed vertex will never be infected again. We assume that at \(t=0\) the only infective vertex is the origin and define the critical value of the model as the supremum of the infection rates with which infective vertices die out with probability one; then, we show that the critical value under the annealed measure is \(\big (1+o(1)\big )/(2dp)\) as the dimension d of the lattice grows to infinity, where p is the probability that a given edge is open. Furthermore, we show that the critical value under the quenched measure equals the annealed one when the origin belongs to an infinite open cluster of the percolation.     

Global stability of a delayed SIRS epidemic model with a non-monotonic incidence rate

In this paper, we investigate a disease transmission model of SIRS type with latent period τ?0 and the specific nonmonotone incidence rate, namely, . For the basic reproduction number R₀>1, applying monotone iterative techniques, we establish sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic stability of endemic equilibrium of system which become partial answers to the open problem in [Hai-Feng Huo, Zhan-Ping Ma, Dynamics of a delayed epidemic model with non-monotonic incidence rate, Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul. 15 (2010) 459-468]. Moreover, combining both monotone iterative techniques and the Lyapunov functional techniques to an SIR model by perturbation, we derive another type of sufficient conditions for the global asymptotic stability of the endemic equilibrium.     

Backward bifurcation for some general recovery functions

We consider an epidemic model for the dynamics of an infectious disease that incorporates a nonlinear function h(I), which describes the recovery rate of infectious individuals. We show that in spite of the simple structure of the model, a backward bifurcation may occur if the recovery rate h(I) decreases and the velocity of the recovery rate is below a threshold value in the beginning of the epidemic. These functions would represent a weak reaction or slow treatment measures because, for instance, of limited allocation of resources o sparsely distributed populations. This includes commonly used functionals, as the monotone saturating Michaelis–Menten, and non monotone recovery rates, used to represent a recovery rate limited by the increasing number of infected individuals. We are especially interested in control policies that can lead to recovery functions that avoid backward bifurcation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymptotic convergence of the Stefan problem to Hele-Shaw

We discuss the asymptotic behaviour of weak solutions to the Hele-Shaw and one-phase Stefan problems in exterior domains. We prove that, if the space dimension is greater than one, the asymptotic behaviour is given in both cases by the solution of the Dirichlet exterior problem for the Laplacian in the interior of the positivity set and by a singular, radial and self-similar solution of the Hele-Shaw flow near the free boundary. We also show that the free boundary approaches a sphere as , and give the precise asymptotic growth rate for the radius.

     

Stability and Asymptotic Behaviour for the Numerical Solution of a Reaction--Diffusion Model for a Deterministic Diffusive Epidemic

The aim of this paper is to outline the numerical solution ofa reaction—diffusion system describing the evolution ofan epidemic in an isolated habitat. The model we consider isdescribed by two weakly coupled semi-linear parabolic equationsand we introduce a finite difference scheme for its numericalsolution. We study the behaviour of the exact solution by meansof the numerical scheme. We show the positivity, the decreaseand the decay to extinction of the numerical solution. Finallywe report the results of the numerical tests; in these simulationswe observe that the asymptotic behaviour of the reaction-diffusionsystem is the same as that of the associated ODE system (Kermack—McKendrickmodel).     

Homogenization of a nonlinear elastic structure periodically reinforced along identical fibres of high rigidity

We describe the asymptotic behaviour of a cylindrical elastic body, reinforced along identical $\epsilon$-periodically distributed fibres of size $\epsilon$, filled in with some different elastic material, when this small parameter $\epsilon$ goes to 0. We suppose that both materials are nonlinear elastic ones, which means that their bulk energy is of Saint Venant–Kirchhoff type. Epi-convergence arguments are used in order to prove this asymptotic behaviour. The proof is essentially based on the construction of appropriate test-functions.     

Quantile Function Expansion Using Regularly Varying Functions

We present a simple result that allows us to evaluate the asymptotic order of the remainder of a partial asymptotic expansion of the quantile function h(u) as u → 0⁺ or 1^?. This is focussed on important univariate distributions when h(?) has no simple closed form, with a view to assessing asymptotic rate of decay to zero of tail dependence in the context of bivariate copulas. Motivation of this study is illustrated by the asymptotic behaviour of the tail dependence of Normal copula. The Normal, Skew-Normal and Gamma are used as initial examples. Finally, we discuss approximation to the lower quantile of the Variance-Gamma and Skew-Slash distributions.     

Asymptotic speed of propagation and traveling wave solutions for a lattice integral equation

We investigate the asymptotic speed of propagation and monotone traveling wave solutions for a lattice integral equation which is an epidemic model while the population is distributed on one-dimensional lattice Z$\mathbb{Z}$. It is proved that the asymptotic speed of propagation _c∗$c_{\ast }$ coincides with the minimal wave speed.     

Dynamic analysis of a rumor propagation model with Lévy noise

In this paper, we are concerned with a rumor propagation model with L vy noise. We first prove that there exists a positive global solution. Then, the asymptotic behaviors around the rumor‐free equilibrium and rumor‐epidemic equilibrium are obtained. Lastly, simulations verify our results.     

Comportement asymptotique des solutions d'équations elliptiques semi-linéaires dans RN

Summary We study the asymptotic behaviour in R^N of the solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation – u + u¦u¦^q-1=f where q > 1 and f is a function of L¹(R^N) with compact support. We obtain three rates of decay according to the value of q by respect to N/(N - 2) and we prove that the behaviour of u is isotropic when q(N+1)/(N– 1). We also give an asymptotic expansion of u in each case.     

Ultrafilters and Ramsey-type shadowing phenomena in topological dynamics

The graded exponent is an important invariant of group graded PI-algebras. In this paper we study a specific elementary grading on the algebra of upper triangular matrices UT _n , compute its codimensions, and use this grading to find the asymptotic behaviour of the codimensions of any elementary grading on UT _n , for any group. Moreover, we extend this to the Lie case, and obtain, for any elementary grading on the Lie algebra UT_n^(?), an upper bound and a lower bound for the asymptotic behaviour of its codimensions. Also, we obtain the graded exponent of any grading on UT_n^(?) and for any grading on the Jordan algebra UJ _n .It turns out that the graded exponent for UT _n , considered as an associative, Jordan or Lie algebra, for any grading, coincides with the exponent of the ordinary case. In the associative case, the asymptotic behaviour of the codimensions of any grading on UT _n coincides with the asymptotic behaviour of the ordinary codimensions. But this is not the case for the graded asymptotics of the codimensions of the Lie algebra UT_n^(?).     

Semiparametric mixtures of nonparametric regressions

In this article, we propose and study a new class of semiparametric mixture of regression models, where the mixing proportions and variances are constants, but the component regression functions are smooth functions of a covariate. A one-step backfitting estimate and two EM-type algorithms have been proposed to achieve the optimal convergence rate for both the global parameters and the nonparametric regression functions. We derive the asymptotic property of the proposed estimates and show that both the proposed EM-type algorithms preserve the asymptotic ascent property. A generalized likelihood ratio test is proposed for semiparametric inferences. We prove that the test follows an asymptotic \(\chi ^2\)-distribution under the null hypothesis, which is independent of the nuisance parameters. A simulation study and two real data examples have been conducted to demonstrate the finite sample performance of the proposed model.     

一类捕食者存在疾病的捕食系统传染病模型

建立并分析一类捕食者存在疾病的捕食系统传染病模型,模型中不考虑疾病对捕获率的影响.通过极限系统理论、Lyapunov稳定性理论分析和Bendixson判据,给出了各类平衡点存在及其全局稳定的条件,并得到了捕食者绝灭和疾病成为地方病的充分必要条件.     

Epidemic spreading with time delay on complex networks

In this paper, we propose a susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model on complex networks, small-world (WS) networks and scale-free (SF) networks, to study the epidemic spreading behavior with time delay which is added into the infected phase. Considering the uniform delay, the basic reproduction number R ₀ on WS networks and \(\bar R_0\) on SF networks are obtained respectively. On WS networks, if R ₀ ≤ 1, there is a disease-free equilibrium and it is locally asymptotically stable; if R ₀ > 1, there is an epidemic equilibrium and it is locally asymptotically stable. On SF networks, if \(\bar R_0 \leqslant 1\), there is a disease-free equilibrium; if \(\bar R_0 > 1\), there is an epidemic equilibrium. Finally, we carry out simulations to verify the conclusions and analyze the effect of the time delay τ, the effective rate λ, average connectivity 〈k〉 and the minimum connectivity m on the epidemic spreading.