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Mean-field limit of a hybrid system for multi-lane car-truck traffic
Networks and Heterogeneous Media 2023, 18(2): 723-752
Published: 15 June 2023
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In the present work we model multi-lane traffic flow in presence of two population of vehicles: cars and trucks. We first develop a finite-dimensional hybrid system which rely on continuous Bando-Follow-the-Leader dynamics coupled with discrete events motivated by the lane-change maneuvers. Then we rigorously prove that the mean-field limit is given by a system of Vlasov-type PDE with source terms generated by the lane-change maneuvers of the human-driven vehicles.

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A measure model for the spread of viral infections with mutations
Networks and Heterogeneous Media 2022, 17(3): 427-442
Published: 15 June 2022
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Genetic variations in the COVID-19 virus are one of the main causes of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 and 2021. In this article, we aim to introduce a new type of model, a system coupled with ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and measure differential equation (MDE), stemming from the classical SIR model for the variants distribution. Specifically, we model the evolution of susceptible S and removed R populations by ODEs and the infected I population by a MDE comprised of a probability vector field (PVF) and a source term. In addition, the ODEs for S and R contains terms that are related to the measure I. We establish analytically the well-posedness of the coupled ODE-MDE system by using generalized Wasserstein distance. We give two examples to show that the proposed ODE-MDE model coincides with the classical SIR model in case of constant or time-dependent parameters as special cases.

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