Bifurcation analysis of a spruce budworm model with diffusion and physiological structures

Abstract

In this paper, the dynamics of a spruce budworm model with diffusion and physiological structures are investigated. The stability of steady state and the existence of Hopf bifurcation near positive steady state are investigated by analyzing the distribution of eigenvalues. The properties of Hopf bifurcation are determined by the normal form theory and center manifold reduction for partial functional differential equations. And global existence of periodic solutions is established by using the global Hopf bifurcation result of Wu. Finally, some numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the analytical results.