Frequency locking and complex dynamics near a periodically forced robust heteroclinic cycle.
(2007)
Journal - Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (United States )
Abstract :
Robust heteroclinic cycles occur naturally in many classes of nonlinear differential equations with invariant hyperplanes. In particular they occur frequently in models for ecological dynamics and fluid mechanical instabilities. We consider the effect of small-amplitude time-periodic forcing and describe how to reduce the dynamics to a two-dimensional map. In the limit where the heteroclinic cycle loses asymptotic stability, intervals of frequency locking appear. In the opposite limit, where the heteroclinic cycle becomes strongly stable, the dynamics remains chaotic and no frequency locking is observed.
The onset of oscillatory dynamics in models of multiple disease strains.
(2002)
Journal - Journal of mathematical biology (Germany )
Abstract :
We examine a generalised SIR model for the infection dynamics of four competing disease strains. This model contains four previously-studied models as special cases. The different strains interact indirectly by the mechanism of cross-immunity; individuals in the host population may become immune to infection by a particular strain even if they have only been infected with different but closely related strains. Several different models of cross-immunity are compared in the limit where the death rate is much smaller than the rate of recovery from infection. In this limit an asymptotic analysis of the dynamics of the models is possible, and we are able to compute the location and nature of the Takens-Bogdanov bifurcation associated with the presence of oscillatory dynamics observed by previous authors.
| ISSN : | 0303-6812 |
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| Mesh Heading : | Communicable Diseases Humans |
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| Mesh Heading Relevant : | Models, Immunological immunology |
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