A three-dimensional nonlinear system with a single heteroclinic trajectory

The study for singular trajectories of three-dimensional (3D) nonlinear systems is one of recent main interests. To the best of our knowledge, among the study for most of Lorenz or Lorenz-like systems, a pair of symmetric heteroclinic trajectories is always found due to the symmetry of those systems. Whether or not does there exist a 3D system that possesses a single heteroclinic trajectory? In the present note, based on a known Lorenz-type system, we introduce such a 3D nonlinear system with two cubic terms and one quadratic term to possess a single heteroclinic trajectory. To show its characters, we respectively use the center manifold theory, bifurcation theory, Lyapunov function and so on, to systematically analyse its complex dynamics, mainly for the distribution of its equilibrium points, the local stability, the expression of locally unstable manifold, the Hopf bifurcation, the invariant algebraic surface, and its homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories, etc. One of the major results of this work is to rigorously prove that the proposed system has a single heteroclinic trajectory under some certain parameters. This kind of interesting phenomenon has not been previously reported in the Lorenz system family (because the huge amount of related research work always presents a pair of heteroclinic trajectories due to the symmetry of studied systems). What"s more key, not like most of Lorenz-type or Lorenz-like systems with singularly degenerate heteroclinic cycles and chaotic attractors, the new proposed system has neither singularly degenerate heteroclinic cycles nor chaotic attractors observed. Thus, this work represents an enriching contribution to the understanding of the dynamics of Lorenz attractor.     

一个具有Filippov控制的植物疾病模型的研究

基于阈值理论,为了控制植物病害并最终使感染植株的数量低于一定的经济临界值,本文提出并分析了一个具有Logistic增长的非光滑的植物疾病模型.系统讨论了每个子系统以及全系统的动力学行为,并利用Matlab进行数值模拟.结果表明,全系统的解最终稳定到子系统的平衡点,或稳定到滑动系统的伪平衡点,取决于经济临界值的大小.     

Hopf Bifurcation and new singular orbits coined in a Lorenz-like system

We seize some new dynamics of a Lorenz-like system: $\dot{x} = a(y - x)$, \quad $\dot{y} = dy - xz$, \quad $\dot{z} = - bz + fx^{2} + gxy$, such as for the Hopf bifurcation, the behavior of non-isolated equilibria, the existence of singularly degenerate heteroclinic cycles and homoclinic and heteroclinic orbits. In particular, our new discovery is that the system has also two heteroclinic orbits for $bg = 2a(f + g)$ and $a > d > 0$ other than known $bg > 2a(f + g)$ and $a > d > 0$, whose proof is completely different from known case. All the theoretical results obtained are also verified by numerical simulations.     

The asymptotic behavior of a nonautonomous eco-epidemic model with disease in the prey

A nonautonomous eco-epidemic model with disease in the prey is formulated and studied. Some sufficient and necessary conditions on the permanence and extinction of the infective prey are established by introducing the new research method. Some sufficient conditions on the global attractivity of the model are presented by constructing a Lyapunov function. Finally, an example is given to show that the periodic model is global attractivity if the infective prey is permanent.     

Equilibrium and sensitivity analysis of a spatio-temporal host-vector epidemic model

Insect-borne diseases are diseases carried by insects affecting humans, animals or plants. They have the potential to generate massive outbreaks such as the Zika epidemic in 2015–2016 mostly distributed in the Americas, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, and the multi-foci outbreak caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa in Europe in the 2010s. In this article, we propose and analyze the behavior of a spatially-explicit compartmental model adapted to pathosystems with fixed hosts and mobile vectors disseminating the disease. The behavior of this model based on a system of partial differential equations is complementarily characterized via a theoretical study of its equilibrium states and a numerical study of its transient phase using global sensitivity analysis. The results are discussed in terms of implications concerning the surveillance and control of the disease over a medium-to-long temporal horizon.     

Existence of limit cycles in a tritrophic food chain model with Holling functional responses of type II and III

We are interested in the coexistence of three species forming a tritrophic food chain model. Considering a linear grow for the lowest trophic species, Holling III and Holling II functional response for the predator and the top‐predator, respectively. We prove that this model has stable periodic orbits for adequate values of its parameters. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Stability analysis of a virus infection model with humoral immunity response and two time delays

In this paper, we investigate the dynamical properties for a model of delay differential equations, which describes a virus‐immune interaction in vivo. By analyzing corresponding characteristic equations, the local stability of the equilibria for infection‐free, antibody‐free, and antibody response and the existence of Hopf bifurcation with antibody response delay as a bifurcation parameter at the antibody‐activated infection equilibrium are established, respectively. Global stability of the equilibria for infection‐free, antibody‐free, and antibody response, respectively, also are established by applying the Lyapunov functionals method. The numerical simulations are performed in order to illustrate the dynamical behavior of the model. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Exact solutions and dynamics of the Raman soliton model in nanoscale optical waveguides, with metamaterials, having parabolic law non-linearity

This paper investigate the Raman soliton model in nanoscale optical waveguides, with metamaterials, having parabolic law non-linearity by using the method of dynamical systems. The functions $q(x,t)=\phi(\xi)\exp(i(-kx+\omega t))$ are solutions of the equation (1.1) that governs the propagation of Raman solitons through optical metamaterials, where $\xi=x-vt$ and $\phi(\xi)$ in the solutions satisfy a singular planar dynamical system (1.5) which has two singular straight lines. By using the bifurcation theory method of dynamical systems to the equation of $\phi(\xi)$, bifurcations of phase portraits for this dynamical system are obtained under 28 different parameter conditions. Based on those phase portraits, 62 exact solutions of system (1.5) including periodic solutions, heteroclinic and homoclinic solutions, periodic peakons and peakons as well as compacton solutions are derived.     

一类含有参数和有理奇性哈密顿系统的同宿与异宿轨道

研究一类含有两个参数和有理奇性平面哈密顿系统的同宿与异宿轨道,该问题来源于一个关于聚合物流体剪切流动特性的研究．借助常微定性理论和不变流形分析的方法,文中给出了系统存在同宿与异宿轨道的条件,并通过数值计算检验了所得理论结果。     

Global dynamics in a multi-group epidemic model for disease with latency spreading and nonlinear transmission rate

In this paper, we investigate a class of multi-group epidemic models with general exposed distribution and nonlinear incidence rate. Under biologically motivated assumptions, we show that the global dynamics are completely determined by the basic production number $R_0$. The disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable if $R_0\leq1$, and there exists a unique endemic equilibrium which is globally asymptotically stable if $R_0>1$. The proofs of the main results exploit the persistence theory in dynamical system and a graph-theoretical approach to the method of Lyapunov functionals. A simpler case that assumes an identical natural death rate for all groups and a gamma distribution for exposed distribution is also considered. In addition, two numerical examples are showed to illustrate the results.     

Global stability for a discrete epidemic model for disease with immunity and latency spreading in a heterogeneous host population

In this paper, we propose a discrete epidemic model for disease with immunity and latency spreading in a heterogeneous host population, which is derived from the continuous case by using the well-known backward Euler method and by applying a Lyapunov function technique, which is a discrete version of that in the paper by Prüss et al. [J. Prüss, L. Pujo-Menjouet, G.F. Webb, R. Zacher, Analysis of a model for the dynamics of prions, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B 6 (2006) 225-235]. It is shown that the global dynamics of this discrete epidemic model with latency are fully determined by a single threshold parameter.     

A continuous day-to-day traffic assignment model and the existence of a continuous dynamic user equilibrium

Suppose that a road network model is given, together with some given demand for travel by (say) car and that the demand for travel varies with time of day but not from day to day. Suppose that this demand is given in the form of specified total outflow rates from each origin headed towards each destination, for each origin-destination pair and for each time of day, and that some initial time-dependent routeinflow rates, meeting the given demand, are given. Finally, suppose that within-day time is represented by a continuous variable. This paper specifies a natural smooth day-to-day route-swapping procedure wherein drivers swap toward less expensive routes as day succeeds day, and shows that under reasonable conditions there is an equilibrium state of this dynamical system. If such a collection of route-inflows has arisen today, say, then there is no incentive for any route-inflow to change tomorrow, in the sense that at each moment of today each of today's route-inflows isalready on a route which today yielded the smallest travel cost. Such a set of no-incentive-to-change route-inflows is called adynamic equilibrium, or adynamic user-equilibrium, and may be regarded as a solution of the dynamic equilibrium traffic assignment problem. Thus, the paper introduces a smooth day-to-day dynamic assignment model and, using this model, shows that there is a dynamic user-equilibrium in a continuous time setting. The paper briefly considers the day-to-day stability of the route-swapping process, also in a continuous setting. Finally, the paper gives a simple dynamical example illustrating the stability of the route-swapping process in a simple two-route network when there is deterministic queueing at bottlenecks.     

Periodicity and attractivity of a ratio-dependent Leslie system with impulses

A ratio-dependent Leslie system with impulses is studied. By using a comparison theorem, continuation theorem base on coincidence degree and constructing a suitable Lyapunov function, we establish sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence and global attractivity of periodic solution. Examples show that the obtained criteria are easily verifiable.     

EXISTENCE AND GLOBAL ATTRACTIVITY OF PERIODIC SOLUTION OF A MODEL IN POPULATION DYNAMICS

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Global properties of a general dynamic model for animal diseases: A case study of brucellosis and tuberculosis transmission

Animal diseases such as brucellosis and tuberculosis can be transmitted through an environmentally mediated mechanism, but the topics of most modeling work are based on infectious contact and direct transmission, which leads to the limited understanding of the transmission dynamics of these diseases. In this paper, we propose a new deterministic model which incorporates general incidences, various stages of infection and a general shedding rate of the pathogen to analyze the dynamics of these diseases. Under the biologically motivated assumptions, we derive the basic reproduction number _R0$R_0$, show the uniqueness of the endemic equilibrium, and prove the global asymptotically stability of the equilibria. Some specific examples are used to illustrate the utilization of our results. In addition, we elaborate the epidemiological significance of these results, which are very important for the prevention and control of animal diseases.     

Global stability of a virus dynamics model with intracellular delay and CTL immune response

In this paper, the global stability of a virus dynamics model with intracellular delay, Crowley–Martin functional response of the infection rate, and CTL immune response is studied. By constructing suitable Lyapunov functions and using LaSalles invariance principle, the global dynamics is established; it is proved that if the basic reproductive number, R₀, is less than or equal to one, the infection‐free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable; if R₀ is more than one, and if immune response reproductive number, R⁰, is less than one, the immune‐free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable, and if R⁰ is more than one, the endemic equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.