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Aedes aegypti is known as the responsible vector transmitting dengue flavivirus. Unavailability of medication to cure the transmission of the virus in the human blood becomes a global health issue in recent decades. World epidemiologists…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-12-04 Karunia Putra Wijaya , Thomas Goetz , Edy Soewono

Wolbachia is possibly the most studied reproductive parasite of arthropod species. It appears to be a promising candidate for biocontrol of some mosquito borne diseases. We begin by developing a sex-structured model for a Wolbachia infected…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-03-06 József Z. Farkas , Stephen A. Gourley , Rongsong Liu , Abdul-Aziz Yakubu

A model for the transmission of dengue disease is presented. It consists of eight mutually-exclusive compartments representing the human and vector dynamics. It also includes a control parameter (adulticide spray) in order to combat the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-01 Helena Sofia Rodrigues , M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Delfim F. M. Torres , Alan Zinober

In this paper we study a mathematical model for an infectious disease such as Cholera without life-time immunity. Due to the different mobility for susceptible, infected human and recovered human hosts, the diffusion coefficients are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Hong-Ming Yin

Dengue is a vector-borne disease transmitted from an infected human to an Aedes mosquito, during a blood-meal. Dengue is still a major public health problem. A model for the disease transmission is presented, composed by human and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-18 Helena Sofia Rodrigues , M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Delfim F. M. Torres

In this article, we are interested in the analysis and simulation of solutions to an optimal control problem motivated by population dynamics issues. In order to control the spread of mosquito-borne arboviruses, the population replacement…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Michel Duprez , Romane Hélie , Yannick Privat , Nicolas Vauchelet

We study travelling-wave solutions for a reaction-diffusion system arising as a model for host-tissue degradation by bacteria. This system consists of a parabolic equation coupled with an ordinary differential equation. For large values of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Danielle Hilhorst , John R. King , Matthias Röger

Dengue transmission is shaped by the population dynamics of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, making vector control a central strategy for disease mitigation. The impact of interventions such as larvicide, adulticide, and breeding-site reduction…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Aram Vajdi , Lee W. Cohnstaedt , Caterina M. Scoglio , Heman Shakeri

Over 50% of the world population is at risk of mosquito-borne diseases. Female Ae. aegypti mosquito species transmit Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya. The spread of these diseases correlate positively with the vector population, and this…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-28 Oladimeji Mudele , Fabio M. Bayer , Lucas Zanandrez , Alvaro E. Eiras , Paolo Gamba

This paper is concerned with a reaction--diffusion system modeling the fixation and the invasion in a population of a gene drive (an allele biasing inheritance, increasing its own transmission to offspring). In our model, the gene drive has…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Léo Girardin , Florence Débarre

\textit{Aedes albopictus} mosquitoes are competent vectors for the spread of at least 24 different arboviruses, including dengue, Ross River, and Japanese encephalitis viruses. However, they remain less studied than their more urban…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-04 Matthew Ryan , Manuela Mendiolar , Dan Pagendam , Roslyn Hickson , Brendan Trewin

This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of delayed reaction-diffusion systems. By using Schauder's fixed point theorem, the existence of traveling wave solutions is reduced to the existence of generalized upper and lower…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-19 Guo Lin , Shigui Ruan

Releasing sterile Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes to invade wild mosquito population is a method of mosquito control. In this paper, a stochastic mosquito population model with Wolbachia invasion perturbed by environmental fluctuation is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Yuanping Cui , Xiaoyue Li , Xuerong Mao , Hongfu Yang

Dengue continues to pose a major global threat, infecting nearly 390 million people annually. Recognizing the pivotal role of vector competence (vc), recent research focuses on mosquito parameters to inform transmission modeling and vector…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-07 Piyumi Chathurangika , Tharushika Peiris , Lakmini S. Premadasa , S. S. N. Perera , Kushani De Silva

Motivated by recent outbreaks of the Ebola Virus, we are concerned with the role that a vector reservoir plays in supporting the spatio-temporal spread of a highly lethal disease through a host population. In our context, the reservoir is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-07-24 W. E. Fitzgibbon , J. J. Morgan

Dengue is one of the major international public health concerns. Although progress is underway, developing a vaccine against the disease is challenging. Thus, the main approach to fight the disease is vector control. A model for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Helena Sofia Rodrigues , M. Teresa T. Monteiro , Delfim F. M. Torres , Alan Zinober

Epidemic spreading often occurs in spatially heterogeneous environments, yet how quenched heterogeneity reshapes its onset and critical dynamics remains poorly understood. The diffusive epidemic process, a minimal reaction-diffusion model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Valentin Anfray , Hong-Yan Shih

The paper is devoted to a reaction-diffusion equation with delay arising in modelling the immune response. We prove the existence of travelling waves in the bistable case using the Leray-Schauder method. In difference with the previous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Sergei Trofimchuk , Vitaly Volpert

This work addresses an optimal control problem on a dynamics governed by a nonlinear differential equation with a bistable time-periodic nonlinearity. This problem, relevant in population dynamics, models the strategy of replacing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Grégoire Nadin , David Nahmani , Nicolas Vauchelet

It is preliminarily known that Aedes mosquitoes are very close to humans and their dwellings, also give rises to a broad spectrum of diseases: dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya. In this paper, we explore a multi-age-class model for mosquito…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Karunia Putra Wijaya , Thomas Goetz , Edy Soewono