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Autores principales: Zhou, Qi, Lin, Zhigui, Santos, Carlos Alberto
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20372
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author Zhou, Qi
Lin, Zhigui
Santos, Carlos Alberto
author_facet Zhou, Qi
Lin, Zhigui
Santos, Carlos Alberto
contents Rainfall is associated with the outbreak of certain waterborne faecal-oral diseases, driving the implementation of various human interventions for their control and prevention. Taking into account human intervention and temporal variation in rainfall, this paper develops a two-season switching faecal-oral model with impulsive intervention and free boundaries. In this model, the infection fronts are represented by fixed boundaries during the dry season and by moving boundaries during the wet season, with impulsive intervention occurring at the end of each wet season. The simultaneous introduction of impulsive intervention and seasonal switching creates new difficulties for mathematical analysis. We overcome these challenges through novel analytical techniques, resulting in a spreading-vanishing dichotomy and a sharp criteria governing this dichotomy. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to validate the theoretical results and to visually illustrate the influence of seasonal switching and impulsive intervention. Our results mathematically explain that two factors, the duration of the dry season and the intensity of impulsive intervention are both positively correlated with effective disease control.
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spellingShingle On a two-season faecal-oral model with impulsive intervention
Zhou, Qi
Lin, Zhigui
Santos, Carlos Alberto
Analysis of PDEs
Rainfall is associated with the outbreak of certain waterborne faecal-oral diseases, driving the implementation of various human interventions for their control and prevention. Taking into account human intervention and temporal variation in rainfall, this paper develops a two-season switching faecal-oral model with impulsive intervention and free boundaries. In this model, the infection fronts are represented by fixed boundaries during the dry season and by moving boundaries during the wet season, with impulsive intervention occurring at the end of each wet season. The simultaneous introduction of impulsive intervention and seasonal switching creates new difficulties for mathematical analysis. We overcome these challenges through novel analytical techniques, resulting in a spreading-vanishing dichotomy and a sharp criteria governing this dichotomy. Finally, numerical simulations are presented to validate the theoretical results and to visually illustrate the influence of seasonal switching and impulsive intervention. Our results mathematically explain that two factors, the duration of the dry season and the intensity of impulsive intervention are both positively correlated with effective disease control.
title On a two-season faecal-oral model with impulsive intervention
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20372