The reaction-diffusion (RD) equations in continuous space have made plentiful achievements in exploration of epidemiological patterns, but their spatiotemporal dynamics are limitedly supported in essence by the RD equations defined on a class of regular lattices as their counterparts discretized in space. However, patterns in complex spatial networks beyond lattices networks remain largely unexplored. In this talk, we creatively develop an epidemic reaction-diffusion model defined on our well-designed basic and modified spatially embedded networks to investigate the epidemiological patterns in spatial networks. We apply some basic properties of the Kronecker product to determine the eigenvalues and their corresponding eigenvectors of a high-dimensional matrix, which leads us to derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for Turing instability. With series and groups of comparative simulations, we systematically study the influence of factors including network size, nonlocal connectivity, asymmetrical connectivity, degree heterogeneity and random connected links on the pattern formations in spatial networks, and obtain some scarcely documented results deepening and broadening our understanding about the epidemiological patterns in space and networks.
靳祯,山西大学二级教授。现任山西省“疾病防控的数学技术与大数据分析”重点实验室主任,山西省数学会理事长,享受国务院政府特殊津贴。主要从事生物动力系统研究,先后主持国家自然基金项目10项,其中国家基金重点项目2项,国家重点研发计划子项目1项。曾获山西省科学技术奖(自然科学类)一等奖2项,教育部高等学校优秀成果二等(自然科学类)奖1项。