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Record Nr.

UNISA996511862403316

Autore

Zohdi Tarek I.

Titolo

Modeling and simulation of infectious diseases : microscale transmission, decontamination and macroscale propagation / / Tarek I. Zohdi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-031-18053-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (123 pages)

Disciplina

616.9

Soggetti

Communicable diseases - Mathematical models

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-

Malalties infeccioses

Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-

Models matemàtics

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries: Basic Mathematics, Optimization and Machine-Learning -- Macroscale Disease Propagation -- Microscale Disease Transmission and Ventilation System Design -- Ultraviolet Viral Decontamination -- Vaccine Design and Immune-System Response -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

The COVID-19 pandemic that started in 2019-2020 has led to a gigantic increase in modeling and simulation of infectious diseases. There are numerous topics associated with this epoch-changing event, such as (a) disease propagation, (b) transmission, (c) decontamination, and (d) vaccines. This is an evolving field. The targeted objective of this book is to expose researchers to key topics in this area, in a very concise manner. The topics selected for discussion have evolved with the progression of the pandemic. Beyond the introductory chapter on basic mathematics, optimization, and machine learning, the book covers four themes in modeling and simulation infectious diseases, specifically: Part 1: Macroscale disease propagation, Part 2: Microscale disease transmission and ventilation system design, Part 3: Ultraviolet



viral decontamination, and Part 4: Vaccine design and immune response. It is important to emphasize that the rapid speed at which the simulations operate makes the presented computational tools easily deployable as digital twins, i.e., digital replicas of complex systems that can be inexpensively and safely optimized in a virtual setting and then used in the physical world afterward, thus reducing the costs of experiments and also accelerating development of new technologies.