English

Existence and qualitative properties of travelling waves for an epidemiological model with mutations

Analysis of PDEs 2014-12-22 v1

Abstract

In this article, we are interested in a non-monotone system of logistic reaction-diffusion equations. This system of equations models an epidemics where two types of pathogens are competing, and a mutation can change one type into the other with a certain rate. We show the existence of minimal speed travelling waves, that are usually non monotonic. We then provide a description of the shape of those constructed travelling waves, and relate them to some Fisher-KPP fronts with non-minimal speed.

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@article{arxiv.1412.6354,
  title  = {Existence and qualitative properties of travelling waves for an epidemiological model with mutations},
  author = {Quentin Griette and Gaël Raoul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6354},
  year   = {2014}
}