On the Spread of a Virus and Traveling Waves, Part I

Yizhou Wang; Akif Ibragimov

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On the Spread of a Virus and Traveling Waves, Part I

Yizhou Wang·Akif Ibragimov

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This paper develops a one-dimensional model for a mobile viral component propagating through a spatially distributed susceptible population. Random viral motion produces diffusion, whereas a response to the relative gradient of susceptible density generates directed transport. The existence of a positive entire traveling wave is proved when directed transport dominates diffusion, and the limiting case of equal transport and diffusion coefficients is constructed separately. A dimensionless transformation then converts the remaining equation into a logistic equation and supplies closed-form profiles. These formulas identify the unique viral maximum and the far-field behavior. A conservative implicit-explicit finite-difference method provides an independent numerical check. Diffusion is evaluated at the new time level, the gradient-driven flux explicitly at cell interfaces, and susceptible depletion pointwise. Exact traveling-wave values specify the initial data and time-dependent Dirichlet conditions at both endpoints. Thus, the computation tests preservation and translation of the analytical profiles. A calculation with eight hundred spatial subintervals reproduces the localized viral band and the monotone susceptible front. The largest uniform errors are approximately $1.70\cdot10^{-2}$ for viral density and $2.22\cdot10^{-3}$ for susceptible density. The numerical results corroborate the analytical construction and show that the conservative discretization captures the proposed propagation mechanism.

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Yizhou Wang, Akif Ibragimov. 2026-10-03. On the Spread of a Virus and Traveling Waves, Part I. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04732

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