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The SIR pandemic model suffers from an unrealistic assumption: The rate of removal from the infectious class of individuals is assumed to be proportional to the number of infectious individuals. This means that a change in the rate of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-23 Paul A. Reiser

Several exact expansions as well as lower and upperbounds of the Kermack and McKendrick SIR equations are presented.

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-08 Piet Van Mieghem

The exact analytical solution in closed form of a modified SIR system where recovered individuals are removed from the population is presented. In this dynamical system the populations $S(t)$ and $R(t)$ of susceptible and recovered…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-11 Angel Ballesteros , Alfonso Blasco , Ivan Gutierrez-Sagredo

Here we propose and implement a generalized mathematical model to find the time evolution of population in infectious diseases and apply the model to study the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Our model at the core is a non-local generalization of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-01 Saumyak Mukherjee , Sayantan Mondal , Biman Bagchi

The celebrated Kermack-McKendric model of epidemics studies the transmission of a disease in a population where each individual is initially susceptible (S), may become infective (I) and then removed or recovered (R) and plays no further…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-13 Michael Shapiro , Edgar Delgado-Eckert

In this paper, we introduce a novel numerical approach for approximating the SIR model in epidemiology. Our method enhances the existing linearization procedure by incorporating a suitable relaxation term to tackle the transcendental…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Vo Anh Khoa , Pham Minh Quan , Ja'Niyah Allen , Kbenesh W. Blayneh

A simple analytical model for modeling the evolution of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic is presented. The model is based on the numerical solution of the widely used Susceptible-Infectious-Removed (SIR) populations model for describing…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-26 Efthimios Kaxiras , George Neofotistos , Eleni Angelaki

The Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model as well as its generalizations are extensively used for the study of the spread of infectious diseases, and for the understanding of the dynamical evolution of epidemics. From SIR type…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-09-02 Tiberiu Harko , Man Kwong Mak

The aim of this short note is twofold. We formulate the general Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model incorporating static heterogeneity and show how it simplifies to a scalar Renewal Equation (RE) when separable mixing is assumed. A key…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-01 M. C. J. Bootsma , K. M. D. Chan , O. Diekmann , H. Inaba

Compartmental transmission models have become an invaluable tool to study the dynamics of infectious diseases. The Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model is known to have an exact semi-analytical solution. In the current study, the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-03 Kevin Heng , Christian L. Althaus

We revisit the classic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemic model and one of its nonlocal variations recently developed in \cite{Guan}. We introduce several new approaches to derive exact analytical solutions in the classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Li , Guan , Dong Li , Ke Wang , Kun Zhao

An accurate closed-form solution is obtained to the SIR Epidemic Model through the use of Asymptotic Approximants (Barlow et. al, 2017, Q. Jl Mech. Appl. Math, 70 (1), 21-48). The solution is created by analytically continuing the divergent…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-05 Nathaniel S. Barlow , Steven J. Weinstein

In this paper, we propose a Susceptible-Infected-Removal (SIR) model with time fused coefficients. In particular, our proposed model discovers the underlying time homogeneity pattern for the SIR model's transmission rate and removal rate…

Applications · Statistics 2021-03-11 Hou-Cheng Yang , Yishu Xue , Yuqing Pan , Qingyang Liu , Guanyu Hu

A class of multiple-timescale asymptotic solutions to the equations of the susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model is presented for the case of high basic reproduction number, with the inverse of the latter employed as the expansion…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-25 Oleg B. Shiryaev

Compartmental models like the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR)\cite{Kermack1927} and its extensions such as the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIRS)\cite{Ottar2020,Ignazio2021,Grimm2021,Paoluzzi2021} are commonly used to model…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-14 Kasturi Banerjee , Subhankar Ray , Jayalakshmi Shamanna

An analytic solution is obtained to the SEIR Epidemic Model. The solution is created by constructing a single second-order nonlinear differential equation in $\ln S$ and analytically continuing its divergent power series solution such that…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-01 Steven J. Weinstein , Morgan S. Holland , Kelly E. Rogers , Nathaniel S. Barlow

Inverse problem to recover the skew-self-adjoint Dirac-type system from the generalized Weyl matrix function is treated in the paper. Sufficient conditions under which the unique solution of the inverse problem exists, are formulated in…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-02-02 B. Fritzsche , B. Kirstein , A. L. Sakhnovich

The susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model describes the evolution of three species of individuals which are subject to an infection and recovery mechanism. A susceptible $S$ can become infectious with an infection rate $\beta$ by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-30 Gunter M. Schütz , Marian Brandau , Steffen Trimper

This paper presents a detailed mathematical investigation into the dynamics of COVID-19 infections through extended Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) and Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) epidemiological models. By…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-21 Caleb Traxler , Minh Ton , Nameer Ahmed , Sasha Prostota , Annie Cheng

In this comment we give a simple analytic approximate solution to the infectious recovery SIR (irSIR) model given by J. Cannarella and J. A. Spechler arXiv:1401.4208, which is a variant of the traditional SIR model.

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-05-27 Kazuyuki Fujii