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The Smoluchowski Equation In Population Dynamics And The Spread Of Infection, Satomi Sugaya
The Smoluchowski Equation In Population Dynamics And The Spread Of Infection, Satomi Sugaya
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This dissertation is a report on an interdisciplinary investigation consisting of an application of random walk techniques to problems in ecology, particularly to the spread of Hantavirus epidemic among rodents that live on an open terrain. The population of mice that we consider is made up of infectious disease-carrying mice and susceptible mice that are disease-free, and each mouse has its own home range around which it executes a random walk. We describe an event of infection transmission in such a population via reaction-diffusion theory. Our simple model consists of two mice, one infected and the other susceptible, the disease …