Modeling and Simulation of Infectious Diseases: Microscale Transmission, Decontamination and Macroscale Propagation - Softcover

Zohdi, Tarek I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3031180550 ISBN 13: 9783031180552

Publisher: Springer, 2024

Synopsis

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 rapidspeed 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.

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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 whichthe 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031180550
• ISBN 13: 9783031180552
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 132