Complex dynamic behavior in a viral model with delayed immune response. (English) Zbl 1117.34081

Wang, Kaifa; Wang, Wendi; Pang, Haiyan; Liu, Xianning

Physica D 226, No. 2, 197-208 (2007).

By incorporating time delay into the immune response, the authors proposed the following viral model \[ x'(t)=\lambda -dx(t)-\beta x(t)y(t), \]
\[ y'(t)=\beta x(t)y(t)-ay(t)-py(t)z(t),\quad z^{\prime }(t)=cy(t-\tau )-bz(t), \]
where \(x(t),y(t),z(t)\) are the numbers of susceptible host cells, virus population and cytotoxic T lymphocytes at time \(t,\) respectively, and all the parameters are positive. Then the stability of the equilibria and the permanence of the system are proved. Moreover, some numerical simulations are given to illustrate the complex dynamic behavior of the system, including the periodic solution, chaos and stability switches. The results in this paper imply that the basic reproductive ration of the virus is an important index in understanding the long time behavior of the immune state of patients.

Reviewer: Hai-Feng Huo (Lanzhou)

MSC:

34K60	Qualitative investigation and simulation of models involving functional-differential equations
92D30	Epidemiology
34K20	Stability theory of functional-differential equations
34K25	Asymptotic theory of functional-differential equations
34K23	Complex (chaotic) behavior of solutions to functional-differential equations

Keywords:

stability switches; basic reproductive ration

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