International Journal of Biomathematics

In this paper, a model of Beddington–DeAngelies chemostat involving two species of micro-organism competing for two perfectly complementary growth-limiting nutrients and pulsed input of toxicant in the polluted environment was studied. Using Floquet theory and small amplitude perturbation method, a conclusion was that there exists two-micro-organism eradication periodic solution and which is global asymptotical stability. At the same time, the condition of the permanence for system was obtained. From the biological point of view, the method for protecting species is to improve the amount of impulsive period, and control the amount of toxicant input to the chemostat. Finally, our results are illustrated by numerical simulations.

This paper examines the effects of current and conductance noises in a minimal Hodgkin–Huxley type model of a cold receptor neuron. Current noise enters the membrane equation directly while conductance noise is propagated through the activation variables. Compared with common used interspike interval method, ISI-distance is a simple complementary approach to measure the different effects of current and conductance noises. ISI-distance extracts information from the interspike intervals by evaluating the ratio of instantaneous firing rates, which is parameter-free, time scale-independent and easy to visualize. Simulation results show that the most significant differences between different noise implementations in a pacemaker-like tonic firing regime at the transition to chaotic burst discharges.

In this paper, we study a stochastic predator–prey model with Beddington–DeAngelis functional response and Allee effect, and show that there is a unique global positive solution to the system with the positive initial value. Sufficient conditions for global asymptotic stability are established. Some simulation figures are introduced to support the analytical findings.

In this paper, the blood flow through a tapered artery with a stenosis by considering axially non-symmetric but radially symmetric mild stenosis on blood flow characteristics is analyzed, assuming the flow is steady and blood is treated as Williamson fluid. The effects of mixed convection heat and mass transfer are also carried out. Perturbation solutions have been calculated for velocity, temperature, concentration, resistance impedance, wall shear stress and shearing stress at the stenosis throat. The graphical results of different types of tapered arteries (i.e. converging tapering, diverging tapering, non-tapered artery) have been examined for different parameters of interest. Streamlines have been plotted at the end of the paper.

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic speed of spreading of a nonlocal delayed equation, which does not satisfy the local quasimonotonicity. By constructing auxiliary undelayed equations, the asymptotic speed of spreading is established. In particular, for such a nonmonotonic equation, the asymptotic speed of spreading is the same as that in the corresponding undelayed equation.

In this paper, a nonlinear mathematical model is presented for the transmission dynamics of HIV/AIDS in Cuba. Due to Cuba's highly successful national prevention program, we assume that the only mode of transmission is through contact with those yet to be diagnosed with HIV. We find the equilibria of the governing nonlinear system, perform a linear stability analysis, and then provide results on global stability.

In this paper, by applying Lyapunov functional approach, we establish a sufficient condition on the global stability of a "delayed" multi-group SIRS epidemic model with cure rate and incomplete recovery rate which does not depend on the delays and is an extension of the "light drug model" studied in the recent paper [Muroya, Li and Kuniya, Complete global analysis of an SIRS epidemic model with graded cure rate and incomplete recovery rate, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 410 (2014) 719–732] to a multi-group model. Applying a Lyapunov functional on total population of each compartment, we offer new techniques for the delayed system, how to prove the permanence, the existence of the endemic equilibrium and the global stability of disease-free equilibrium for the reproduction number and endemic equilibrium for .

A mathematical model is presented in order to describe the dynamics of polygamous populations, bearing in mind single individuals of both sexes and the development of reproductive groups. In this context, the description leads us to consider positive homogeneous dynamical systems, establishing conditions for the stationary state existence and its local stability. A fourth pre-reproductive stage was considered, i.e. males and females spend part of their lives before being in condition to reproduce, as a first step to consider more general models. Finally, we parametrized the proposed model using southern elephant seal data, to analyze the direct applicability to a real population.

In this paper a definitely new analytical technique, predictor homotopy analysis method (PHAM), is employed to solve the problem of two-dimensional nanofluid flow through expanding or contracting gaps with permeable walls. Moreover, comparison of the PHAM results with numerical results obtained by the shooting method coupled with a Runge–Kutta integration method as well as previously published study results demonstrates high accuracy for this technique. The fluid in the channel is water containing different nanoparticles: silver, copper, copper oxide, titanium oxide, and aluminum oxide. The effects of the nanoparticle volume fraction, Reynolds number, wall expansion ratio, and different types of nanoparticles on the flow are discussed.

In this paper, we consider a diffusive plant–herbivore system with the toxin-determined functional response and subject to the homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions on the bounded one-dimensional spatial domain. The impacts of diffusion on the dynamical behaviors are investigated and it is found that although the appearance of diffusion does not affect the stability of constant steady states, it can lead to the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation of spatially inhomogeneous periodic solutions at the constant positive steady state. The conclusions show that the occurrence of spatial diffusion can induce more complex dynamical behaviors.

This paper is concerned with the existence of entire solutions of some reaction–diffusion systems. We first consider Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction model. Then we study a general model. Using the comparing argument and sub-super-solutions method, we obtain the existence of entire solutions which behave as two wavefronts coming from the both sides of x-axis, where an entire solution is meant by a classical solution defined for all space and time variables. At last, we give some examples to explain our results for the general models.

The effect of permeable walls and magnetic field on the peristaltic flow of a Carreau fluid in a tapered asymmetric channel is studied. The tapered asymmetric channel is normally created due to the intra-uterine fluid flow induced by myometrial contractions and it was simulated by asymmetric peristaltic fluid flow in a two-dimensional infinite non-uniform channel. The analysis has been performed under long wavelength and low-Reynolds number assumptions to linearize the governing flow equations. A series solution in respect of a small Weissenberg number is obtained for the stream function, axial pressure gradient and shear stress. Time average of pressure rise and frictional force on the upper wall has also been computed using numerical integration. The results have been presented graphically for the various interested physical parameters. It is observed that for Carreau fluids the peristalsis works as a pump against a greater pressure rise compared with a Newtonian fluid, while there exists no significant difference in free pumping flux for Newtonian and Carreau fluids in the tapered asymmetric channel.

In this paper, steady incompressible micropolar fluid flow through a non-uniform channel with multiple stenoses is considered. Assuming the stenoses to be mild and using the slip boundary condition, the equations governing the flow of the proposed model are solved, and closed-form expressions for the flow characteristics (resistance to flow and wall shear stress) are derived. The effects of different parameters on these flow characteristics are analyzed. It is observed that both the resistance to the flow and the wall shear stress increase with the heights of the stenoses and the slip parameter; but decrease with the Darcy number. Furthermore, the effects of the wall exponent parameter, the cross-viscosity coefficient and the micropolar parameter on the flow characteristics are discussed.

In this study a mathematical model for two-dimensional pulsatile blood flow through overlapping constricted tapered vessels is presented. In order to establish resemblance to the in vivo conditions, an improved shape of the time-variant overlapping stenosis in the elastic tapered artery subject to pulsatile pressure gradient is considered. Because it contains a suspension of all erythrocytes, the flowing blood is represented by micropolar fluid. By applying a suitable coordinate transformation, tapered cosine-shaped artery turned into non-tapered rectangular and a rigid artery. The governing nonlinear partial differential equations under the imposed realistic boundary conditions are solved using the finite difference method. The effects of vessel tapering on flow characteristics considering their dependencies with time are investigated. The results show that by increasing the taper angle the axial velocity and volumetric flow rate increase and the microrotational velocity and resistive impedance reduce. It has been shown that the results are in agreement with similar data from the literature.