SIR Model
Definition
A compartmental epidemiological model partitioning a population into Susceptible (S), Infectious (I), and Recovered (R) classes with ordinary differential equations Ṡ = −(βSI)/N, İ = (βSI)/N − γI, Ṙ = γI that describe infection by mass-action transmission and recovery at rate γ.
SIR Model
Definition
A compartmental mathematical model that divides a fixed population into three mutually exclusive compartments—Susceptible (S), Infectious (I), and Recovered (R)—with flows between compartments governed by transmission and recovery rates; often used to study qualitative epidemic dynamics under assumptions such as homogeneous mixing and immunity after recovery.