Stability and Hopf Bifurcation of a Stage-Structured Cannibalism Model with Two Delays

In this work, we consider a stage-structured cannibalism model with two delays. One delay characterizes the lag effect of negative feedback of the prey species, the other has the effect of gestation of the adult predator population. Firstly, criteria for the local stability of feasible equilibria are established. Meanwhile, by choosing delay as a bifurcation parameter, the criteria on the existence of Hopf bifurcation are established. Furthermore, by the normal form theory and center manifold theorem, we derive the explicit formulas determining the properties of periodic solutions. Finally, the theoretical results are illustrated by numerical simulations, from which we can see that the predator’s gestation time delay can make the chaotic phenomenon disappear and maintain periodic oscillation, and that a large feedback time delay of prey can make predators extinct and prey form a periodic solution.

Dynamics in a Predator–Prey Model with Cooperative Hunting and Allee Effect

This paper deals with a diffusive predator–prey model with two delays. First, we consider the local bifurcation and global dynamical behavior of the kinetic system, which is a predator–prey model with cooperative hunting and Allee effect. For the model with weak cooperation, we prove the existence of limit cycle, and a loop of heteroclinic orbits connecting two equilibria at a threshold of conversion rate p=p#, by investigating stable and unstable manifolds of saddles. When p>p#, both species go extinct, and when p<p#, there is a separatrix. The species with initial population above the separatrix finally become extinct, and the species with initial population below it can be coexisting, oscillating sustainably, or surviving of the prey only. In the case with strong cooperation, we exhibit the complex dynamics of system, including limit cycle, loop of heteroclinic orbits among three equilibria, and homoclinic cycle with the aid of theoretical analysis or numerical simulation. There may be three stable states coexisting: extinction state, coexistence or sustained oscillation, and the survival of the prey only, and the attraction basin of each state is obtained in the phase plane. Moreover, we find diffusion may induce Turing instability and Turing–Hopf bifurcation, leaving the system with spatially inhomogeneous distribution of the species, coexistence of two different spatial-temporal oscillations. Finally, we consider Hopf and double Hopf bifurcations of the diffusive system induced by two delays: mature delay of the prey and gestation delay of the predator. Normal form analysis indicates that two spatially homogeneous periodic oscillations may coexist by increasing both delays.

Dynamic Analysis in a Plankton Ecosystem Involving Two Delays

In this paper, a phytoplankton and zooplankton relationship system with two delays is investigated whose coefficients are related to one of the two delays. Firstly, the dynamic behaviors of the system with one delay are given and the stability of positive equilibrium and the existence of periodic solutions are obtained. Using the fact that the system may occur, the stable switching phenomenon is verified. Under certain conditions, the periodic solutions will exist in a wide range as the delay gets away from critical values. Fixing the delay [Formula: see text] in the stable interval, it is revealed that the effect of [Formula: see text] can also cause the vibration of system. This explains that two delays play an important role in the oscillation behavior of the system. Furthermore, using the crossing curve methods, the stable changes of the positive equilibrium in two-delays plane are given, which generalizes the results of systems for which the coefficients do not depend on delay. Some numerical simulations are provided to verify the theoretical results.

Asymptotic Properties of Solutions to Delay Differential Equations Describing Plankton—Fish Interaction

We consider a system of differential equations with two delays describing plankton–fish interaction. We analyze the case when the equilibrium point of this system corresponding to the presence of only phytoplankton and the absence of zooplankton and fish is asymptotically stable. In this case, the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the system is studied. We establish estimates of solutions characterizing the stabilization rate at infinity to the considered equilibrium point. The results are obtained using Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals.

Stability Analysis of a Fractional-Order SEIR-KS Computer Virus-Spreading Model with Two Delays

In this paper, the stability and Hopf bifurcation of a fractional-order model of the Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Kill Signals Recovered (SEIR-KS) computer virus with two delays are studied. The sufficient conditions for solving the stability and the occurrence of Hopf bifurcation of the system are established by using Laplace transform, stability theory, and Hopf bifurcation theorem of fractional-order differential systems. The research shows that time delays and fractional order q have an important effect on the stability and the emergence of Hopf bifurcation of the fractional computer virus model. In addition, the validity of the theoretical analysis is verified by selecting appropriate system parameters for numerical simulation and the biological correlation of the equilibrium point is discussed. The results show that the bifurcation point of the model increases with the decrease in the model fractional order q. Under the same fractional order q, the effects of different types of delays on bifurcation points are obviously different.