Rong Qiang

Ms. Rong Qiang


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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

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1 January 2022 in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B
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KGKe Guo
Ke Guo
Wanbiao MaWanbiao Ma
Wanbiao Ma
RQRong Qiang
Rong Qiang
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile vasculitis that occurs predominantly in infants and young children. With coronary artery abnormalities (CAAs) as its most serious complications, KD has become the leading cause of acquired heart disease in developed countries. Based on some new biological findings, we propose a time-delayed dynamic model of KD pathogenesis. This model exhibits forward\begin{document}$ / $\end{document}backward bifurcation. By analyzing the characteristic equations, we completely investigate the local stability of the inflammatory factors-free equilibrium and the inflammatory factors-existent equilibria. Our results show that the time delay does not affect the local stability of the inflammatory factors-free equilibrium. However, the time delay as the bifurcation parameter may change the local stability of the inflammatory factors-existent equilibrium, and stability switches as well as Hopf bifurcation may occur within certain parameter ranges. Further, by skillfully constructing Lyapunov functionals and combining Barbalat's lemma and Lyapunov-LaSalle invariance principle, we establish some sufficient conditions for the global stability of the inflammatory factors-free equilibrium and the inflammatory factors-existent equilibrium. Moreover, it is shown that the model is uniformly persistent if the basic reproduction number is greater than one, and some explicit analytic expressions of eventual lower bounds of the solutions of the model are given by analyzing the properties of the solutions and the range of time delay very precisely. Finally, some numerical simulations are carried out to illustrate the theoretical results.