Periodic Solutions of a Delayed Eco-Epidemiological Model with Infection-Age Structure and Holling Type II Functional Response

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of a new delayed eco-epidemiological model with infection-age structure and Holling type II functional response. Firstly, the disease transmission rate function among the predator population is treated as the piecewise function concerning the incubation period [Formula: see text] of the epidemic disease and the model is rewritten as an abstract nondensely defined Cauchy problem. Besides, the prerequisite which guarantees the presence of the coexistence equilibrium is achieved. Secondly, via utilizing the theory of integrated semigroup and the Hopf bifurcation theorem for semilinear equations with nondense domain, it is found that the model exhibits a Hopf bifurcation near the coexistence equilibrium, which suggests that this model has a nontrivial periodic solution that bifurcates from the coexistence equilibrium as the bifurcation parameter [Formula: see text] crosses the bifurcation critical value [Formula: see text]. That is, there is a continuous periodic oscillation phenomenon. Finally, some numerical simulations are shown to support and extend the analytical results and visualize the interesting phenomenon.