A microbial population dynamics model for the Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol fermentation process

Modelling the impact of interventions on the progress of the COVID-19 outbreak including age segregation

“…Population balance models are widely use in disciplines such as chemical engineering to describe the evolution of a population of particles (Henze et al, 2000;Ramkrishna and Singh, 2014;Yang, 2014;González-Peñas et al, 2020). These types of models describe the variation over time of, socalled, state variables as functions of state transition equations governed by transport processes, chemical reactions or any type of change rate from one state to another.…”

“…Data timelines and availability has greatly increased in recent years, which led to direct improvements in epidemic models (Colizza et al, 2006;Riley, 2007;Siettos & Russo, 2013). These models can help in providing a more comprehensive understanding of recent outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola (Gomes et al, 2014;WHO Ebola Response Team, 2014) and Zika (Zhang et al, 2017). However, all modelling efforts are highly dependent on several elements: a deep understanding of the course of the disease; a comprehensive algorithm of clinical and public health options available and stages of events; probability of such options given certain conditions of the system; identification of parameters that reflect such events and their probabilities (such as mortality by age, infectiousness by contacts, etc.…”