Abstract and Applied Analysis

Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 704320, 11 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/704320

Research Article

Hopf Bifurcation Control in a Delayed Predator-Prey System with Prey Infection and Modified Leslie-Gower Scheme

Zizhen Zhang1,2 and Huizhong Yang¹

¹Key Laboratory of Advanced Process Control for Light Industry of the Ministry of Education, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China

²School of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu 233030, China

Received 9 May 2013; Accepted 4 June 2013

Academic Editor: Luca Guerrini

Copyright © 2013 Zizhen Zhang and Huizhong Yang. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

Hopf bifurcation of a delayed predator-prey system with prey infection and the modified Leslie-Gower scheme is investigated. The conditions for the stability and existence of Hopf bifurcation of the system are obtained. The state feedback and parameter perturbation are used for controlling Hopf bifurcation in the system. In addition, direction of Hopf bifurcation and stability of the bifurcated periodic solutions of the controlled system are obtained by using normal form and center manifold theory. Finally, numerical simulation results are presented to show that the hybrid controller is efficient in controlling Hopf bifurcation.

1. Introduction

The dynamics of epidemiological models have been investigated by many scholars [1–7] since Kermack and McKendrick [8] proposed the classical SIR model. Based on the classical SIR model, Chattopadhyay and Arino [9] proposed a predator-prey epidemiological model with disease spreading in the prey, and they studied the boundedness of the solutions and the existence of Hopf bifurcation for the model. In order to study the influence of disease on an environment where two or more interacting species are present, Zhou et al. [10] proposed the following ecoepidemiological system consisting of three species:

where , , and denote, respectively, the population density of the susceptible prey, the infected prey, and the predator. It is assumed that the predator eats only the infected prey with the modified Leslie-Gower scheme [11–14]. The coefficients , , , , , , , , and in system (1) are all positive constants, and their ecological meanings are interpreted as follows. and represent the intrinsic birth rate and the carrying capacity of the prey population in the absence of disease, respectively. represents the transmission coefficient. represents the death rate of the infected prey. represents the maximum value of the per capita rate of the infected prey due to the predator. represents the maximum value of the per capita rate of the predator due to the infected prey population. and represent the extent to which environment protection to the infected prey and the predator, respectively. Zhou et al. studied the boundedness, stability, and the permanence of system (1). The effect of the transmission coefficient and the predation rate on the dynamics of the system were also investigated.

However, an important aspect which should be kept in mind while formulating an epidemiological system is the fact that it is often necessary to incorporate time delays into the system in order to reflect the dynamical behaviors of the system depending on the past history of the system, and epidemiological systems with delay have been studied extensively [4, 5, 15–17]. Zhang et al. [5] formulated a delayed predator-prey epidemiological system with disease spreading in predator. Hu and Li [15] considered a delayed predator-prey system with disease in prey, and they studied Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the periodic solutions induced by the time delay. Motivated by the work above, in the present paper, we incorporate the feedback delay of the predator into system (1) and get the following delayed system:

where is the negative feedback delay of the predator. The main purpose of this paper is to consider the effect of the delay on the dynamics of system (2). We will study the local existence of Hopf bifurcation and the properties of periodic solutions. In addition, in order to delay the onset of Hopf bifurcation, we will incorporate the state feedback and parameter perturbation into system (2).

The initial conditions for system (2) take the following form , , , , where and , , and .

This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we will study the stability of the positive equilibrium and the existence of local Hopf bifurcation of system (2). In Section 3, the state feedback and parameter perturbation are incorporated into system (2) to control the Hopf bifurcation. The direction and the stability of the bifurcated periodic solutions are also determined for the controlled system. Some numerical simulations are given to support the theoretical prediction in Section 4.

2. Stability of Positive Equilibrium and Hopf Bifurcation

According to [10], we can know that if the condition : holds, then system (2) has a unique positive equilibrium , where

with

The variational matrix at takes the form

where

The characteristic equation corresponding to will be

where

For , characteristic equation (7) reduces to

Obviously, if the condition : and holds, then the positive equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable in the absence of delay.

For , substituting into (7) and separating the real and imaginary parts, one can get

which leads to

where

Let . Equation (11) can be written as

Obviously, . Discussion about the roots of (13) is similar to that in [15], so we have the following lemma.

Lemma 1. For the polynomial equation (13), since , one has the following results:

(i)if , then (13) has at least one positive root; (ii)if and , then (13) has no positive roots; (iii)if and , then (13) has positive roots if and only if and .

Suppose that the coefficients in satisfy the following condition : or , , , and .

If the condition holds, then (13) has at least one positive root. Without loss of generality, we assume that (13) has three positive roots that are denoted as , , and . Then, (11) has tree positive roots , , and for every fixed , the corresponding critical value of time delay is

Let

Next, we give the transversality condition by the following Lemma.

Lemma 2. Suppose that and . Then .

Proof. Taking the derivative of with respect to in (7), we obtain

which yields

Hence, a direct calculation shows that

From (11), we have

Thus,

Obviously, if , then . In addition, .

Thus, the proof is completed.

By Lemmas 1 and 2 and Corollary  2.4 in [18], we have the following theorem.

Theorem 3. For system (2), if the conditions hold, then

(i)the positive equilibrium is asymptotically stable for ;(ii)the positive equilibrium is unstable when ;(iii)if , then system (2) undergoes a Hopf bifurcation at when . That is, system (2) has a branch of periodic solutions bifurcating from the zero solution near .

3. Hopf Bifurcation Control

In this section, we will incorporate the state feedback and parameter perturbation into system (2) in order to delay the onset of Hopf bifurcation in the system or make the bifurcation disappear. Then we get the following system with controller:

where , , and are parameters, which can control the system to relocate the onset of an inherent bifurcation.

Similar as in Section 2, we can easily get that if the following condition holds : , then, system (21) has a unique positive equilibrium where

with

Using Taylor expansion to expand the right-hand side of system (21) at the positive equilibrium , we have

where

with

The linear system of (24) is

The characteristic equation of system (27) is

where

Obviously, the characteristic equation of system (27) is similar to (7). As the analysis method is similar to Section 2, we omit the linear stability and Hopf bifurcation analysis of system (21). By the similar computation as in Section 2, we can get that the critical value of time delay for system (21) is

with

where is a positive root of the following equation:

with

Let

In the following, we will use the normal form method and center manifold theorem introduced by Hassard et al. [19] to determine the property of the bifurcated periodic solutions of the controlled system (21) at .

Let . Then is the Hopf bifurcation value of the controlled system (21). Rescaling the time , then system (21) can be written as

where and and are given respectively by

with

Thus, by the Riesz representation theorem, there exists a matrix function whose elements are of bounded variation such that

In fact, we choose

For , we define

Then system (21) can be transformed into the following operator equation:

The adjoint operator of is defined by

and the bilinear inner product:

with .

By the previous discussions, we know that are eigenvalues of and . We assume that is the eigenvector of belonging to the eigenvalue , and is the eigenvector of belonging to . Then we have

By a simple computation, we can get

Then from (43), we can obtain

such that , .

Next, we can get the coefficients determining the direction of the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcated periodic solutions by the algorithms given in [19]:

with

where and can be computed as the following equations, respectively,

with

Therefore, we can calculate the following values:

Based on the previous discussion, we can obtain the following results.

Theorem 4. For system (21), when , the direction of the Hopf bifurcation and stability of periodic solutions are determined by the formulas (51), and the following results hold.

The Hopf bifurcation is supercritical (subcritical) if   ; the bifurcating periodic solutions are stable (unstable) if   ; the period of the bifurcating periodic solution increases (decreases) if   .

4. Numerical Simulation Examples

In this section, we give some numerical simulations to illustrate our theoretical analysis in Sections 2 and 3. As an example, we consider the following particular case of system (2):

By a simple computation, we have , . Obviously, . Namely, the condition holds, and we can get that system (52) has an unique positive equilibrium . Then, we obtain , . Thus, the condition holds. Further, we have , , and . That is, the transversality condition is satisfied. By Theorem 3, we can get that the positive equilibrium is locally asymptotically stable for , which can be seen from Figure 1, and is unstable when . This property can be illustrated by Figure 2.

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(b)

(c)

(d)

Figure 1: is locally asymptotically stable for .

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(b)

(c)

(d)

Figure 2: is unstable for .

Next, we choose , , and to control the Hopf bifurcation, and we get a particular case of system (21):

Then, we can easily get the unique positive equilibrium of system (53) . From the analysis in Section 3, we get and . By choosing and , the dynamical behavior of the controlled system (53) is illustrated in Figures 3 and 4. From the two figures we can see that, when , the positive equilibrium is asymptotically stable (see Figure 3). However, once the time delay passes through the critical value , the system loses stability and a Hopf bifurcation occurs (see Figure 4).

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(b)

(c)

(d)

Figure 3: is locally asymptotically stable for .

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Figure 4: is unstable for .

Comparing Figures 3 and 4 with Figures 1 and 2, it shows that the onset of Hopf bifurcation is delayed when controller has been incorporated into the system, and the critical value of the delay increases from to .

In addition, from (51), we get , , and . Thus, from Theorem 4, we know that the Hopf bifurcation is supercritical, the bifurcated periodic solutions are stable, and the period of the bifurcated periodic solutions increases. Since the bifurcated periodic solutions are stable, then the species in system (53) can coexist under some conditions in an oscillatory mode from the viewpoint of biology.

5. Conclusions

A delayed predator-prey system with prey infection and the modified Leslie-Gower scheme is investigated. Regarding the negative feedback delay of the predator as a parameter, the local stability of the positive equilibrium and the existence of Hopf bifurcation are analyzed. The results show that, when the delay crosses a critical value, the system will lose its stability and a Hopf bifurcation occurs. To delay the onset of the Hopf bifurcation, we incorporate the state feedback and parameter perturbation into the system, and simulation results show the effectiveness of the controller. In addition, the direction of the Hopf bifurcation and the stability of the bifurcated periodic solutions for the controlled system are also determined by the normal form theory and the center manifold argument.

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) of China under Grant 61273070, a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, and Doctor Candidate Foundation of Jiangnan University (JUDCF12030).

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