Existence of traveling wave solutions for influenza model with treatment.

Abstract: To investigate the spreading speed of influenza and the influence of treatment on the spreading speed, a reaction–diffusion influenza model with treatment is established. The existence of traveling wave solutions is shown by introducing an auxiliary system and applying the Schauder fixed point theorem. The non-existence of traveling wave solutions is proved by a two-sided Laplace transform, which needs a new approach for the prior estimate of exponential decay of traveling wave solutions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]