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In this paper, we are concerned with a model of the indirect transmission of an epidemic disease between two spatially distributed host populations having non-coincident spatial domains with nonlocal and cross-diffusion, the epidemic disease transmission occurring through a contaminated environment. The mobility of each class is assumed to be influenced by the gradient of the other classes. We address the questions of existence of weak solutions and existence and uniqueness of classical solution by using, respectively, a regularization method and an interpolation result between Banach spaces. Moreover, we propose a finite volume scheme and proved the well-posedness, nonnegativity and convergence of the discrete solution. The convergence proof is based on deriving a series of a priori estimates and by using a general L p compactness criterion. Finally, the numerical scheme is illustrated by some examples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A finite volume method for solving the degenerate chemotaxis model is presented, along with numerical examples. This model consists of a degenerate parabolic convection–diffusion PDE for the density of the cell-population coupled to a parabolic PDE for the chemoattractant concentration. It is shown that discrete solutions exist, and the scheme converges. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]