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Table 1 Table of the physical meanings of the parameters used in the Diffusive COVID-19 Epidemic model investigated in this work

From: An explicit unconditionally stable scheme: application to diffusive Covid-19 epidemic model

Symbols for variables

Description

Symbols for parameters

Description

S

Fraction of Susceptible

α

infecting rate of asymptomatic individuals

E

Fraction of Exposed

β

infecting rate of infectious individuals

A

Fraction of Asymptomatic

γ

a conversion rate of exposed individuals to become asymptomatic

I

Fraction of Infective

σ

rate of those fraction of infectious hosts which have symptoms

R

Fraction of Recovered

μ

the healing rate of asymptomatic and infectious individuals

  

\(d_{i} 's\) 1 ≤ i ≤ 5

Diffusion coefficients