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Comparative analysis of apple and orange during forced convection cooling: experimental and numerical investigation

  • The main theme of this paper is to make improvements in heat transfer during cooling of food products in forced convection environment. In the present study the effect of air velocity during precooling of spherical food products i.e., apple and orange is seen. The experiments are performed on an air blast apparatus and results are compared using simulation with a 3D CFD model. Models are developed and solved with the later one more likely to be close to experiments and hence this model is studied at 5 different velocities (0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 m s-1) for both samples. It is observed that cooling is improved significantly up to a particular speed for both apple and orange and increasing the speed above their respective critical speeds i.e., 2.5 m s-1 for apple and 2.0 m s-1 orange, does not enhance the cooling significantly and hence is not advisable to increase the speed above their critical speed as it leads to loss of energy which in turn increases the overall operational cost. The half cooling time and the seven-eight cooling time consequently decreases by 45.91% and 44.61%, respectively, for an individual apple with an increase in air-inflow velocity from 0.5 to 3.0 m/s and 44.27% and 43.31% respectively for orange. The food sample is rotated about its axis slowly at 2 rad s-1 and its effect is also seen. It is observed that there is significant amount of increase in the cooling rate and also the cooling is uniform.

    Citation: Taliv Hussain, Mohd Ahsan Kamal, Adnan Hafiz. Comparative analysis of apple and orange during forced convection cooling: experimental and numerical investigation[J]. AIMS Energy, 2021, 9(2): 193-212. doi: 10.3934/energy.2021011

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  • The main theme of this paper is to make improvements in heat transfer during cooling of food products in forced convection environment. In the present study the effect of air velocity during precooling of spherical food products i.e., apple and orange is seen. The experiments are performed on an air blast apparatus and results are compared using simulation with a 3D CFD model. Models are developed and solved with the later one more likely to be close to experiments and hence this model is studied at 5 different velocities (0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0 m s-1) for both samples. It is observed that cooling is improved significantly up to a particular speed for both apple and orange and increasing the speed above their respective critical speeds i.e., 2.5 m s-1 for apple and 2.0 m s-1 orange, does not enhance the cooling significantly and hence is not advisable to increase the speed above their critical speed as it leads to loss of energy which in turn increases the overall operational cost. The half cooling time and the seven-eight cooling time consequently decreases by 45.91% and 44.61%, respectively, for an individual apple with an increase in air-inflow velocity from 0.5 to 3.0 m/s and 44.27% and 43.31% respectively for orange. The food sample is rotated about its axis slowly at 2 rad s-1 and its effect is also seen. It is observed that there is significant amount of increase in the cooling rate and also the cooling is uniform.


    Dengue fever is a viral disease produced by a pathogenic agent and is spread through female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Specific temperature areas of the world are affected by dengue infection and are almost spread to 128 countries which brings much more losses in public health and economy [1]. The symptoms include, muscle pain, nausea, red eyes, high fever, joints pain, pain behind eyes, lower back pain, vomiting, severe fatigue and weakness, and mild bleeding etc. The carrier vector becomes infected when they bit an infected host and transmit four different serotypes of dengue to the host through their bites. Rare cases of vertical transmission in dengue infection are reported [2,3]. Due to the increased prominence of dengue viral infection in the past few decades, much effort has been made recently to develop a dengue vaccine. Yet, there is no fully effective vaccine although the partially effective vaccine is accessible in several states of the world [4,5]. Reduction of vector bites and environmental domain for vectors are other adopted control policies for dengue infection.

    Epidemiological models are of great significance to gain insight into the comprehensive dynamics of infectious disease and to provide better control policies. To be more specific, analysis of these models predicts critical factors that play a central part in the prevention and spread of infection [6,7]. A number of the dynamical models have been established and approved to visualize the transmission of dengue infection [8,9,10,11]. The basic model of dengue infection was introduced by Lourdes Esteva and analyzed the stability of the model with variable human population [8,9]. Stability results for the equilibria of dengue infection model were established by in [10,11]. The role of vaccination on the transmission dynamics of dengue is examined in [12,13]. In dengue infection, asymptomatic carriers are frequently reported in [14,15] and are critical in the sense to increase the level of infection in endemic and non-endemic areas of the world.

    It is eminent that vector-borne disease posses information about its previous stages and associative learning mechanism, to be more specific memory has a prominent role in the transmission dynamics of vector-borne disease. The memory in the host population associated to the individual awareness which reduces the contact rate between vector and hosts, while the mosquitoes use their prior experience about the human's location, blood selection, color, and the smell of humans sweat [16,17]. These types of phenomena can easily be captured by a fractional-order system in mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

    Fractional order system posses information about its previous and present stages to provide more realistic information about the dynamics of viral infections. Therefore, the dynamical behavior of epidemic diseases can be conceptualized and explore more accurately through non-integer order derivatives. A number of fractional-order models are introduced in the literature and successfully showed their positive role in different areas of physics, engineering, mathematics, and biology. For instant, a Maxwell model in fractional derivative is studied in [18]. Dengue dynamics in fractional derivative is considered in [19]. Application of fractional calculus to subdiffusion-reaction process is explored in [20]. An SIR model in fractional derivative is considered in [21]. The wave equation in a delay type fractional derivative is considered [22]. Recently, researchers proved that the fractional-order model can effectively handle the crossover behavior and complexity of communicable diseases, and offers a preferable fit for real data of the infection [23,24]. These properties make fractional-order systems more efficient than integer-order systems. For more related research on fractional order derivative and their applications to science and engineering problems, the authors investigated many piratical problems. For example, the author in [25] studied the fractional derivative and its applications to epidemic models. The corona virus model with lockdown is discussed through a mathematical model in [26]. The CoVID-19 and its impact on HIV and their future observation has been investigated in [27]. The corona virus model with fractional derivative is studied in [28], where the fractional operator is considered the Atangana-Baleanu type. The authors in [29] studded a corona virus model with nonlocal operator and using a power computational method. The M-fractional derivative and its applications to differential equations is discussed in [30]. An engineering problem with a new numerical results is studied in [31]. A fractional Schrodinger-Hirota equation and its optical solution is analyzed in [32]. The computer virus model in fractional derivative is considered in [33]. A review article that describing the harmonic wavelets and its fractal extension is studied in [34]. The solution of heat and diffusion equation with new technology is considered in [35]. A vector-host model with saturated treatment function and its optimal control analysis is discussed in [36]. The solution of Telegraph equation in new fractional operators is considered in [37]. The boundary value problems in fractional derivatives are studied in [38]. A fractional SEIR type model with treatment is studied in [39] while he dynamics of HIV with different transmission rates are analyzed in [40]. Therefore, motivated by these extraordinary properties, we analyze the dynamical behavior of dengue infection in the framework of the fractional-order derivative.

    The article is structured as: In the second section, we put forward a brief summary of the basic concepts of fractional calculus. In the third section, we construct a fractional-order model for dengue infection with new assumptions, in addition, we proved basic results for our proposed fractional-order model. We established stability results for the steady-state in section four and carried out sensitivity analysis through the PRCC technique to point out the importance of input parameter on the output of R0. We have shown the influence of different input factors on the basic reproduction number R0, numerically. The fractional-order system is inspected numerically to observe the influence of ϑ on the dynamics of dengue in Section 5. In the last section of the article, ending remarks and conclusion of the overall analysis is presented.

    Here, we will present a brief summary of the Caputo fractional derivative for further analysis of the dengue model. Caputo fractional derivative has the benefit of dealing with initial value problems and involves integration which posses information about the previous state of the system.

    Definition 2.1. Let g:R+R, then the fractional integral of g is given by

    Iϑt(g(t))=1Γ(ϑ)t0(ty)ϑ1g(y)dy. (2.1)

    where ϑ indicates the order of fractional integral and Gamma function is indicated by Γ.

    Definition 2.2. The fractional derivative of order ϑ for a given function g in the Caputo form is given by

    CaDϑt(g(t))=InϑDng(t)=1Γ(nϑ)ta(ty)nϑ1gn(y)dy, (2.2)

    where n1<ϑ<n,nN.

    Let η1,η2 be two positive numbers, then the Mittag-Leffler function is given by

    Eη1,η2(s)=k=k=0skΓ(η1k+η2). (2.3)

    Let C0Dϑt be the Caputo fractional derivative (CFD) of order ϑ, then its laplace transform is define by

    L[C0Dϑtg(t)]=uϑG(u)n1k=0gk(0)uϑk1, (2.4)

    further, for the function tη21Eη1,η2(±ωtϑ), the laplace transform is given by

    L[tη21Eη1,η2(±ωtϑ)]=uη1η2uη1±ω. (2.5)

    The following equation hold true by Mittage-Leffler function given in [41]:

    Eη1,η2(s)=s.Eη1,η1+η2(s)+1Γ(η2).

    Lemma 2.1. [42]. Consider a function g:R+×R5R5, which fulfills the conditions:

    The function g(t,Y(t)) is Lebesgue measurable in R+ with respect to t;

    The function g(t,Y(t)) is continuous on R5 with respect to Y(t);

    The function g(t,Y(t))Y is continuous on R5 with respect to Y(t);

    and g(t,Y(t))+Y,tR+,YR5, where , are positive constants.

    Then the fractional order system

    CaDϑtY(t)=g(t,Y(t)),Y(0)=Y0, (2.6)

    where 0<ϑ1, has a unique solution.

    Lemma 2.2. [43]. Let a function g(t)C(r,s] such that CrDϑtg(t)C[r,s] for ϑ(0,1], then we have

    g(t)=g(r)+1Γ(ϑ)CrDϑtg(ϵ)(tr)ϑ,  r<ϵ<t,t(r,s].

    Remark 1. Let a function gC(r,s], such that CrDϑtg(t)C[r,s] for ϑ(0,1]. Then by Lemma (2.2) if CrDϑtg(t)0, t(r,s), then g(t) is non-increasing function for all t[r,s], and if CrDϑtg(t)0, t(r,s), then g(t) is non-decreasing function for all t[r,s].

    In construction of the model, we represent the mosquitoes and humans population by Nv and Nh. The total mosquitoes size is divided into susceptible (Sv) and infected (Iv) compartments, while the total humans size is divided into susceptible (Sh), infected (Ih), carrier (IhA), partially immune (P), and recovered (Rh) compartments.

    We indicate the natural birth (or death) rate of mosquito and human by μv and μh, respectively, and assumed that the disease-induced death rate to be negligible. Furthermore, we assumed that a fraction υ of susceptible hosts goes to partially immune class after implementation of vaccination and τ indicates treatment of infected host. The symptomatic fraction of infected class from susceptible and partially immune classes are indicated by ψ and ω, respectively. the parameter ρ denotes the fraction of treated humans which join the partially immune class P while remanning enter to recovered class Rh. Parameter γh is used for recovery of symptomatic and asymptomatic humans while ϕ denotes the fraction of recovered humans which join the partially immune class P. The terms (bβ1NhIv) and (bβ2NhIv) indicate the infection rate per susceptible host and partially immune host, respectively, while (bβ3NhIh) denotes the infection rate of per susceptible vector. In these terms b accounts the bitting rate, β1 and β2 are the rates at which infected vectors transmit disease to susceptible and partially immune humans respectively, whereas β3 represents the disease transmission rate from infected human to susceptible vector. The dynamics of dengue infection is given by

    {dShdt=μhNhβ1bNhShIvυShμhSh,dIhdt=ψβ1bNhShIv+ωβ2bNhPIv(μh+τ+γh)Ih,dIhAdt=(1ψ)β1bNhShIv+(1ω)β2bNhPIv(μh+γh)IhA,dPdt=υSh+ρτIh+ϕγh(Ih+IhA)β2bNhPIvμhP,dRhdt=(1ρ)τIh+(1ϕ)γh(Ih+IhA)μhRh,dSvdt=μvNvβ3bNhSv(Ih+IhA)μvSv,dIvdt=β3bNhSv(Ih+IhA)μvIv, (3.1)

    with the following initial condition

    Sh(0)0,Ih(0)0,IhA(0)0,P(0)0,Rh(0)0,Sv(0)0,Iv(0)0.

    We denote the total human population size by Nh, and vector by Nv so that, Nh=Sh+Ih+IhA+P+Rh and Nv=Sv+Iv. As the system (3.1) is independent of the state-variable Rh, thus, the proposed model (3.1) of dengue infection can be re-written in the following form without Rh:

    {dShdt=μhNhβ1bNhShIvυShμhSh,dIhdt=ψβ1bNhShIv+ωβ2bNhPIv(μh+τ+γh)Ih,dIhAdt=(1ψ)β1bNhShIv+(1ω)β2bNhPIv(μh+γh)IhA,dPdt=υSh+ρτIh+ϕγh(Ih+IhA)β2bNhPIvμhP,dSvdt=μvNvβ3bNhSv(Ih+IhA)μvSv,dIvdt=β3bNhSv(Ih+IhA)μvIv, (3.2)

    further, assume that

    x1=ShNh,x2=IhNh,x3=IhANh,x4=PNh,x5=IvNv and x6=SvNv,

    then, we have x1+x2+x3+x4=1 and x5+x6=1. After replacing x6=1x5 in the last equation of normalized system we obtained the following five dimensional reduced dengue model:

    {dx1dt=μhbβ1NvNhx1x5υx1μhx1,dx2dt=ψbβ1NvNhx1x5+ωbβ2NvNhx4x5(μh+τ+γh)x2,dx3dt=(1ψ)bβ1NvNhx1x5+(1ω)bβ2NvNhx4x5(μh+γh)x3,dx4dt=υx1+ρτx2+ϕγh(x2+x3)bβ2NvNhx4x5μhx4,dx5dt=bβ3(1x5)(x2+x3)μvx5. (3.3)

    As fractional-order models describe the non-local behavior of biological systems and posses hereditary property, moreover, it provides information about its past and present state for the future, therefore, we represent the dynamical system (3.3) of dengue infection in the framework of fractional order Caputo's derivative to conceptualize the transmission of dengue fever in a more accurate way. Thus, the system consist of fractional derivatives is presented by

    {C0Dϑtx1=μϑhbϑax1x5υϑx1μϑhx1,C0Dϑtx2=ψbϑax1x5+ωbϑcx4x5(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)x2,C0Dϑtx3=(1ψ)bϑax1x5+(1ω)bϑcx4x5(μϑh+γϑh)x3,C0Dϑtx4=υϑx1+ρτϑx2+ϕγϑh(x2+x3)bϑcx4x5μϑhx4,C0Dϑtx5=bϑe(1x5)(x2+x3)μϑvx5, (3.4)

    where C0Dϑt indicates Caputo's fractional derivative of order ϑ, the order ϑ indicates the index of memory in the system. In addition, the values

    a=β1NvNh,c=β2NvNh,  and  e=β3.

    In Caputo's sense, the derivative of constant is equal to zero which is another advantage to make the system more reliable and flexible for analysis. Next, we will analyze the biologically feasible region of the fractional-order dengue model (3.4).

    Theorem 3.1. The proposed fractional-order dengue infection system of equations (3.4) has a unique solution.

    Proof. For the required result, we first prove that the fractional system (3.4) has a unique solution for all initial conditions in R5. Clearly, the first three conditions of Lemma (2.1) are hold by the vector function g of the system (3.4). Next, to prove the last condition of Lemma (2.1), we rewrite system (3.4) as

    C0Dϑtx(t)=+A1x(t)+A2x1(t)x(t)+A3x2(t)x(t)+A4x3(t)x(t)+A5x4(t)x(t)+A6x5(t)x(t),

    where

    =[μϑh0000],A1=[(μϑh+υϑ)00000(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)00000(μϑh+γϑh)00υϑρτϑ+ϕγϑhϕγϑhμϑh00bϑebϑe0μϑv],
    A2=[000000000ψbϑa0000(1ψ)bϑa0000000000],A3=[000000000000000000000000bϑe],A4=[000000000000000000000000bϑe],
    A5=[000000000ωbϑc0000(1ω)bϑc0000000000],A6=[bϑa00000000000000000bϑc000000].

    Symbolize the above

    g(t,x(t))=+A1x(t)+A2x1(t)x(t)+A3x2(t)x(t)+A4x3(t)x(t)+A5x4(t)x(t)+A6x5(t)x(t),

    and taking norm, we get

    g(t,x(t))=+A1x(t)+A2x1(t)x(t)+A3x2(t)x(t)+A4x3(t)x(t)+A5x4(t)x(t)+A6x5(t)x(t)+A1x(t)+A2x1(t)x(t)+A3x2(t)x(t)+A4x3(t)x(t)+A5x4(t)x(t)+A6x5(t)x(t)+A1x(t)+A2x(t)+A3x(t)+A4x(t)+A5x(t)+A6x(t)=+(A1+A2+A3+A4+A5+A6)x(t)=+x(t).

    Hence, the requirements of Lemma (2.1) are fulfilled, therefore the system of equations (3.4) has a unique solution.

    Theorem 3.2. The closed set Ω={(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5)R5+:0x1+x2+x3+x4M1,0x5M2} is a positive invariant set for the proposed fractional order system (3.4).

    Proof. To prove that the system of equations (3.4) has a non-negative solution, the system of equations (3.4) implies

    {C0Dϑtx1x1=0=μϑh>0,C0Dϑtx2x2=0=ψbϑax1x5+ωbϑcx4x50,C0Dϑtx3x3=0=(1ψ)bϑax1x5+(1ω)bϑcx4x50,C0Dϑtx4x4=0=υϑx1+ρτϑx2+ϕγϑh(x2+x3)0,C0Dϑtx5x5=0=bϑe(x2+x3)0. (3.5)

    Thus, the fractional system (3.4) has non-negative solutions. In the end, from the first four equations of the fractional system (3.4), we obtain

    C0Dϑt(x1+x2+x3+x4)μϑhμϑhx1((1ρ)τϑ+(1ϕ)γϑh+μϑh)x2((1ϕ)γϑh+μϑh)x3μϑhx4,μϑhW(x1+x2+x3+x4) (3.6)

    where W=min(μϑh,((1ρ)τϑ+(1ϕ)γϑh+μϑh),((1ϕ)γϑh+μϑh),μϑh). Solving the above inequality, we obtain

    (x1(t)+x2(t)+x3(t)+x4(t))(x1(0)+x2(0)+x3(0)+x4(0)μϑhW)Eϑ(Wtϑ)+μϑhW,

    so by the asymptotic behavior of Mittag-Leffler function [44], we obtain

    (x1(t)+x2(t)+x3(t)+x4(t))μϑhWM1,

    taking the same steps for the last equation of system (3.4), we get x5(t)M2, where M2=bϑeM1bϑeM1+μϑv. Hence, the closed set Ω is a positive invariant region for the fractional-order dengue model (3.4).

    The biological meaningful equilibria of fractional system (3.4) are DFE and EE, depending on infected classes in both the populations. To obtain the infection-free equilibrium, we set the fractional derivative C0Dϑtx1,C0Dϑtx2,C0Dϑtx3,C0Dϑtx4, and C0Dϑtx5 to zero of the fractional system (3.4) without infection, and get

    E0(x01,x02,x03,x04,x05)=(μϑhμϑh+υϑ,0,0,υϑμϑh+υϑ,0).

    The detailed concept of the basic reproduction number is presented in [45], and is normally denoted by R0, and is calculated as

    F=[ψbϑax1x5+ωbϑcx4x5(1ψ)bϑax1x5+(1ω)bϑcx4x5bϑe(1x5)(x2+x3)]and  V=[(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)x2(μϑh+γϑh)x3μϑvx5],

    this is because of three infected comportment in the system, i.e., m=3, which provides

    F=[00ψbϑax01+ωbϑcx0400(1ψ)bϑax01+(1ω)bϑcx04bϑebϑe0]and  V=[(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)000(μϑh+γϑh)000μϑv],

    which gives

    FV1=[00ψbϑax01+ωbϑcx04μϑv00(1ψ)bϑax01+(1ω)bϑcx04μϑvbϑe(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)bϑe(μϑh+γϑh)0].

    The R0 of the fractional-order dengue model (3.4) is obtained by using the next generation matrix as

    ρ(FV1)=bϑeμϑv(μϑh+υϑ)[(1ψ)bϑaμϑh+(1ω)bϑcυϑμϑh+γϑh+ψbϑaμϑh+ωbϑcυϑμϑh+γϑh+τϑ],
    R0=bϑeμϑv(μϑh+υϑ)[(1ψ)bϑaμϑh+(1ω)bϑcυϑμϑh+γϑh+ψbϑaμϑh+ωbϑcυϑμϑh+γϑh+τϑ].

    Assume a fractional-order linear homogenous system of the following form

    C0Dϑty(t)=By(t),y(0)=y0, (4.1)

    where BMm×m(R) and 0<ϑ1. The following theorems are on the stability of linear homogenous system (4.1).

    Theorem 4.1. [46]. The origin of the fractional dynamical system (4.1) is asymptotically stable ⇔∣arg(λi)∣>ϑπ2 is fulfilled for all eigenvalues λi of matrix B.

    Theorem 4.2. [47]. The steady state of fractional system (2.6) is locally asymptotically stable (LAS) if arg(λi)∣>ϑπ2 for all eigenvalues λi's of g(y) at steady state, otherwise unstable.

    In order to prove the LAS of infection-free steady state E0 it is sufficient to confirm that all of the eigenvalues of the matrix of dynamics given by J(E0) lie outside the closed angular sector as shown in [46]. We state the following theorem for the desired result.

    Theorem 4.3. The DFE of the fractional-order system (3.4) is LAS if R0<1 and arg(λi)∣>ϑπ2 for all eigenvalues λi's of the Jacobian matrix J(E0) at steady state, otherwise it is unstable.

    Proof. To obtain the demanded result for the fractional system (3.4), we take the Jacobian matrix of the system at infection-free equilibrium as

    J(E0)=[(υϑ+μϑh)000bϑax010(μϑh+γϑh+τϑ)00ψbϑax01+ωbϑcx0400(μϑh+γϑh)0(1ψ)bϑax01+(1ω)bϑcx04υϑρτϑ+ϕγϑhϕγϑhμϑhbϑcx040bϑebϑe0μϑv].

    The characteristic equation in term of Λ of the above matrix JE0 which is given below:

    (λ+μϑh)(λ+(μϑh+υϑ))(λ3+a1λ2+a2λ+a3)=0, (4.2)

    where the associated coefficients are as follow:

    a1=(μϑh+γϑh+τϑ)+(μϑh+γϑh)+μϑv,a2=(μϑh+γϑh+τϑ)(μϑh+γϑh)+(μϑh+γϑh+τϑ)μϑv+(μϑh+γϑh)μϑvbϑeBbϑeA,a3=(μϑh+γϑh+τϑ)(μϑh+γϑh)μϑv[1R20],

    , where A=ψbϑax01+ωbϑcx04 and B=(1ψ)bϑax01+(1ω)bϑcx04. From (4.2) it is clear the argument of the first two eigenvalues λ=μϑh and λ=(μϑh+υϑ) satisfy the necessary condition given (i.e., arg(λi)∣>ϑπ2 for all ϑ(0,1)). Furthermore, if R0<1, then all ai>0, for i=1,2,3, and it is easy to show that a1a2a3>0 Thus, following [46], the arguments of all eigenvalues satisfy the necessary Matignon condition. Consequently, the infection-free steady-state is LAS.

    Theorem 4.4. The infection-free steady state of the fractional-order system (3.4) is GAS without vaccination, if R0<1.

    Proof. Let υ=0, and (x1,x2,x3,x4,x5) be the solution of system (3.4) with suitable initial conditions (x1(0),x2(0),x3(0),x4(0),x5(0)) in Ω. Here, it is clear that the fractional system has only one equilibrium E0 on the boundary of Ω. Therefore, to achieve the target, it is enough to prove that the solution (x1,x2,x3,x4,x5) tends to the infection-free equilibrium as time tends to infinity. Since xix0i, for i=1,4, then the system implies that

    C0Dϑtx2ψbϑax01x5+ωbϑcx04x5(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)x2,C0Dϑtx3(1ψ)bϑax01x5+(1ω)bϑcx04x5(μϑh+γϑh)x3,C0Dϑtx5bϑe(x2+x3)μϑvx5.

    Taking the auxiliary system

    C0Dϑty1=ψbϑax01y3+ωbϑcx04y3(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)y1,C0Dϑty2=(1ψ)bϑax01y3+(1ω)bϑcx04y3(μϑh+γϑh)y2,C0Dϑty3=bϑe(y1+y2)μϑvy3,

    this further implies

    C0DϑtY=(FV)Y

    the coefficient matrix of the above fractional system is FV, and if R0=ρ(FV1)<1, then the eigenvalues of FV lies in the left half plane. Consequently, each positive solution of the fractional system (4.3) fulfills limty1=0, limty2=0 and limty3=0 by Theorem 4.1. By the comparison theory of fractional differential equations [48], we have limtx2=0, limtx3=0 and limtx5=0. Then from system (3.4), we have

    C0Dϑtx1=μϑhμϑhx1,C0Dϑtx4=0μϑhx4,

    this can be further converted into

    C0DϑtX=ΛBX,

    having the solution

    X(t)=tϑEϑ,ϑ+1(Btϑ)Λ+Eϑ,1(Btϑ)X0,

    taking the asymptotic behavior of Mittag-Leffler function [44] as

    Eϑ,1(ωtϑ)ttϑωΓ(1ϑ);   0<ϑ<1  and  ω>0,

    also the real parts of eigenvalues of B are negative, so it can be observed that X(t)X0 as t tends to infinity. Hence, the infection-free steady-state of the system (3.4) is GAS without vaccination.

    Next, we will demonstrate the persistence of infection in the fractional-order system. It describes the level of endemicity of infection in the system. Biologically speaking, the infection persists in the system if the level of infected fraction stays at a higher level for t large enough.

    Theorem 4.5. In the fractional-order system (3.4), the dengue infection is uniformly persistent at ϑ=1 if R0>1.

    Proof. The threshold parameter R0 is of high significance, which measures the level of infection in the system. If R0 less than one then the asymptomatic stability of infection-free equilibrium(E0) prevent the system from the persistent of the infection. If R0 greater than one then the sufficiently close solution of fractional system (3.4) to E0 moves away from it due to its instability in the interior of Ω by Theorem (4.3). For uniform persistence of our system (3.4) at ϑ=1, we will prove that it fulfills the criteria of Theorem 4.3 in [49] for R0>1. Select X=R5 and E=Ω. Here, the maximal invariant set on the boundary of Ω is the set {E0} and is isolated. So, the criteria of Theorem 4.3 in [49] satisfies for the system. Thus, the system (3.4) is uniformly persistent if E0 is unstable for R0>1.

    In the section, we present the global sensitivity analysis in order to determine those model parameters which are most influential on the disease dynamics. The main goal of this analysis is to detect and measure the influence of input parameters on the output of the system. To be more specific, it is used to know how the input parameters and initial values contribute to the output of a system. Mostly, when there is a little uncertainty in initial conditions and input parameters partial derivative of output functions are computed with respect to the input factors around the base values. This method is named as the local sensitivity analysis and relies on the variations of parameters close to the base values. This technique is not most suitable for epidemiological models due to the uncertainty in the input of the system. Therefore, global sensitivity analysis is preferred to perform this analysis and to provide more accurate results.

    Here, we used the PRCC method [50] for sensitivity analysis to point out the input parameters that highly influence the results of R0. It is an effective method and can successfully measure the monotonic, nonlinear relationship between input and output values of the system. PRCC analysis provides PRCC and p values for each factor involve therein, with which we can measure the contribution of each factor. More specifically, the input factors with sizeable PRCC and negligible p-values are considered to be highly effective factors in the system. In our analysis, we investigate all the parameter presented in Table 1 to know their contribution to the outcomes of R0 and listed all the associated PRCC and p-values provided by the PRCC significance test. Figure 1 and Table 1 demonstrate that the parameter b is highly influential with PRCC value 0.7022. After that, the parameter β1, and ϑ are highly influential with PRCC values 0.6427, and -0.5112, respectively. Sensitivity analysis illustrated that b,β1, and ϑ are critical parameters in R0, which can remarkably influence the infection. Therefore by controlling these factors can greatly decrease and prevent the level of new dengue cases in the community.

    Table 1.  Sensitivity results of R0 with PRCC and corresponding p values.
    Parameter Interpretation PRCC values p values
    ϑ index of memory or fractional order -0.5112 0.0000
    μh recruitment rate of humans host 0.1095 0.0023
    υ vaccinated fraction of susceptible host + 0.3133 0.0000
    ψ fraction of incidence rate from Sh to Ih + 0.1804 0.0010
    β1 transmission probability from vectors to susceptible host + 0.6427 0.0000
    β2 transmission probability from vectors to partially immune host + 0.5094 0.0000
    τ treatment fraction of infected host individuals -0.2110 0.0000
    γh recovery rate of host individuals -0.3361 0.0000
    β3 transmission probability from infected hosts to susceptible vectors +0.2320 0.0000
    μv recruitment rate of mosquitoes vector -0.3197 0.0000
    ω fraction of incidence rate from P to Ih + 0.3596 0.0000
    b bitting rate of vectors +0.7022 0.0000

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    Figure 1.  Sensitivity test for input factors of R0 and PRCC outcomes for R0.

    Next, we illustrate the influence of vaccination and treatment in on the threshold R0 of the proposed system 2 (a). We noted that vaccination and treatment decrease the threshold parameter, moreover, we observed that vaccination reduces the susceptibility of host individuals in the system while the treatment reduces the infectivity of host individuals. In Figure 2 (b), we showed the influence of β3 and γh on the basic reproduction number R0 of the proposed system of dengue fever.

    Figure 2.  Illustration of basic reproduction number R0 (a) with the variation of vaccination υ and treatment τ, (b) and with the variation of β3 and γh.

    We present in this section the solution of the model (3.4) by using the algorithm presented in [51]. To have a numerical scheme, we write the model (3.4) in the following form:

    {CDϑtg(t)=G(t,g(t)),g(0)=g0,0<T<, (5.1)

    where g=(x1,x2,x3,x4,x5)R+5, G(t,g(t)) is used for a continuous real valued vector function, which additionally satisfies the Lipschitz condition and g0 stands for initial state vector. Taking Caputo integral on both sides of (5.1) we get

    g(t)=g0+1Γ(ϑ)t0(tλ)ϑ1G(λ,g(λ))dλ. (5.2)

    In order to formulate an iterative scheme, we consider a uniform grid on [0,T] with h=T0m is the step size and mN. Thus, the equation (5.2) gets the structure as follows after make use of the Euler method [52]

    {gn+1=g0+hϑΓ(ϑ+1)nj=0((nj+1)ϑ(nj)ϑ)G(tj,g(tj)),n=0,1,2,,m. (5.3)

    Thus, utilizing the above scheme (5.3), we deduced the following iterative formulae for the corresponding classes of the model (3.4)

    x1n+1=x10+hϑΓ(ϑ+1)nj=0((nj+1)ϑ(nj)ϑ)(μϑhbϑax1jx5jυϑx1jμϑhx1j),x2n+1=x20+hϑΓ(ϑ+1)nj=0((nj+1)ϑ(nj)ϑ)(ψbϑax1jx5j+ωbϑcx4jx5j(μϑh+τϑ+γϑh)x2j),x3n+1=x30+hϑΓ(ϑ+1)nj=0((nj+1)ϑ(nj)ϑ)((1ψ)bϑax1jx5j+(1ω)bϑcx4jx5j(μϑh+γϑh)x3j),x4n+1=x40+hϑΓ(ϑ+1)nj=0((nj+1)ϑ(nj)ϑ)(υϑx1j+ρτϑx2j+ϕγϑh(x2j+x3j)bϑcx4jx5jμϑhx4j),x5n+1=x50+hϑΓ(ϑ+1)nj=0((nj+1)ϑ(nj)ϑ)(bϑe(1x5j)(x2j+x3j)μϑvx5j). (5.4)
    Table 2.  Interpretation of input parameters with values used in numerical simulations.
    Parameter Interpretation Values Reference
    μv natural mortality and recruitment rate of vector 0.032300 & 0.029410 [53,54]
    β1 transmission probability from vectors to susceptible host 0.75 [10]
    β2 transmission probability from vectors to partially immune host 0.375 Assumed
    ϑ index of memory or fractional order variable Assumed
    b bitting rate of vectors 0.50 [10]
    τ treatment fraction of infected host 0.40 Assumed
    υ vaccinated fraction of susceptible host 0.20 Assumed
    β3 transmission probability from infected humans to mosquitoes 0.75 [10]
    ψ fraction of incidence rate from Sh to Ih 0.48 Assumed
    γh recovery rate of host individuals 0.3288330 [53,54]
    ω fraction of incidence rate from P to Ih 0.54 Assumed
    μh natural mortality and recruitment rate of humans 0.004500 & 0.000046 [53,54]
    ρ fraction of treated humans enter to P class 0.6 Assumed

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    We used the above approximation for the solution of our fractional system. In Figure (3), we demonstrate the dynamics of infected host (Ih), asymptomatic host (IhA), partially immune (P) host and infected vector (Iv) with the variation of fractional-order ϑ. We noticed that the variation of fractional-order ϑ has a great influence on the infection level of dengue in both the population. In other words, it can highly reduce the level of dengue fever in the community. In Figure (4) and Figure (5), we represent the dynamics of dengue fever with the variation of vaccination and treatment. In these simulations, we observed that vaccination and treatment decrease susceptibility and infectivity of the host population, and have a slight influence on the level of infection. We demonstrated the effect of biting rate b of the mosquitoes on the dynamics of dengue and observed that the peak of infection can be greatly decreased by decreasing the biting rate b in Figure (6). The mosquitoes biting and its generation further can be decreased by spraying or wasting the standing water around home or inside the home, which has great influence on population of mosquitoes that end up biting humans. Using bed-nets, avoid to visit areas prone to mosquitoes, using mosquito repellent, covering legs and arms by wearing long-sleeves and long pants are useful to prevent himself from the biting of mosquitoes. These scenarios predict that the infection can be controlled and prevented by decreasing the index of memory and biting rate of vectors in the community.

    Figure 3.  Illustration of the path moment of (a) Infected host Ih, (b) Carrier host(Asymptomatic) IhA, (c) Partially immune P and (d) Infected host Iv individuals with different values of fractional-order ϑ, i.e., ϑ=0.6,0.8,1.0.
    Figure 4.  Illustration of the path moment of (a) Infected host Ih, (b) Carrier host(Asymptomatic) IhA, (c) Partially immune P and (d) Infected vector Iv individuals with different vaccination rates υ, i.e., υ=0.2,0.4,0.6.
    Figure 5.  Illustration of the path moment of (a) Infected host Ih, (b) Carrier host(Asymptomatic) IhA, (c) Partially immune P and (d) Infected vector Iv individuals with different treatment rates τ, i.e., τ=0.4,0.6,0.8.
    Figure 6.  Illustration of the path moment of (a) Infected host Ih, (b) Carrier host(Asymptomatic) IhA, (c) Partially immune P and (d) Infected vector Iv individuals with variation of biting rate of mosquitoes b, i.e., b=0.4,0.6,0.8.

    In this article, we constructed a new epidemic model for the transmission of dengue infection with non-integer derivative. Basic results of the suggested fractional system are investigated through analytic skills. The basic reproduction number of the system is calculated through the next-generation method, indicated by R0. We established stability results of infection-free steady-state of the system. Sensitivity analysis of R0 is carried out in order to know the contribution of input factors in the results of R0 and observed that b,μv, and β3 are the most critical parameters that highly contribute in the control and subsequent spread of dengue infection. We showed that the dengue infection is uniformly persistent in the system for R0>1. We obtained feasible results for the dynamics of dengue infection with the variation of memory index ϑ and suggested that the index of memory has a dominant influence on the system. We concluded that the fractional-order model can explore more accurately the dengue epidemic disease transmission model rather than the integer-order derivative models. The numerical results for the suggested parameter can be considered useful for the possible eliminations of dengue infection in the community. We suggest that fractional-order(index of memory) ϑ and biting rate b can remarkably control and greatly decrease the level of disease in the society.

    No conflict of interest exists regarding the publications of this work.

    The authors are thankful to the anonymous reviewers for the careful checking and suggestions that improved the presentation of the paper greatly. Fatmawati and Muhammad Altaf Khan are supported by Universitas Airlangga through Hibah Riset Mandat (No. 342/UN3.14/LT/2019). The funding of this paper was made from the project Universitas Airlangga through Hibah Riset Mandat (No. 342/UN3.14/LT/2019). Yasir Khan extends their appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Hafr Al Batin for funding this work through the research group project no.(G-108-2020).



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