Scientific Reports (May 2024)

Fractal fractional model for tuberculosis: existence and numerical solutions

  • Aziz Khan,
  • Kamal Shah,
  • Thabet Abdeljawad,
  • Inas Amacha

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62386-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

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Abstract This paper deals with the mathematical analysis of Tuberculosis by using fractal fractional operator. Mycobacterium TB is the bacteria that causes tuberculosis. This airborne illness mostly impacts the lungs but may extend to other body organs. When the infected individual coughs, sneezes or speaks, the bacterium gets released into the air and travels from one person to another. Five classes have been formulated to study the dynamics of this disease: susceptible class, infected of DS, infected of MDR, isolated class, and recovered class. To study the suggested fractal fractional model’s wellposedness associated with existence results, and boundedness of solutions. Further, the invariant region of the considered model, positive solutions, equilibrium point, and reproduction number. One would typically employ a fractional calculus approach to obtain numerical solutions for the fractional order Tuberculosis model using the Adams-Bashforth-Moulton method. The fractional order derivatives in the model can be approximated using appropriate numerical schemes designed for fractional order differential equations.

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