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This model is a spatial extension of the well-established SIR-type epidemiological models that account for the dispersal rate , contact rate , recovery rate , and the mobility of the individuals . As such, it provides far more realistic simulations of in natura disease outbreaks than the classical epidemiological models that have become well established since the work of Kermack and McKendrick (1927). The model equations are given by:

Snapshots 1–4 show the spatio-temporal evolution of the proportion of infected individuals for a parameter setting that allows the epidemic wave to propagate across the region.

References

[1] W. O. Kermack and A. G. McKendrick, "A Contribution to the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics," Proceedings of the Royal Society London A, 115(772), 1927 pp. 700–721. dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspa.1927.0118.

[2] J. D. Murray, Mathematical Biology II: Spatial Models and Biomedical Applications, 3rd ed., Berlin: Springer, 2003.