Volume 2007, Issue 1 017930
Research Article
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Boundedness and Large-Time Behavior Results for a Diffusive Epidemic Model

Lamine Melkemi

Lamine Melkemi

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Batna, Batna 05000, Algeria univ-batna.dz

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Ahmed Zerrouk Mokrane

Ahmed Zerrouk Mokrane

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Batna, Batna 05000, Algeria univ-batna.dz

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Amar Youkana

Amar Youkana

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Batna, Batna 05000, Algeria univ-batna.dz

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First published: 10 May 2007
Citations: 5
Academic Editor: Karl Kunisch

Abstract

We consider a reaction-diffusion system modeling the spread of an epidemic disease within a population divided into the susceptible and infective classes. We first consider the question of the uniform boundedness of the solutions for which we give a positive answer. Then we deal with the asymptotic behavior of the solutions where in particular we are interested in reasonable conditions leading to the extinction of the infection disease as the time goes to infinity.

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