Transit times and mean ages for nonautonomous and autonomous compartmental systems

DOI10.1007/S00285-016-0990-8zbMATH Open1358.34019arXiv1603.02497OpenAlexW2297040010WikidataQ31066973 ScholiaQ31066973MaRDI QIDQ338332FDOQ338332

Authors: Martin Rasmussen, Alan Hastings, Matthew J. Smith, Folashade B. Agusto, B. Chen-Charpentier, Forrest M. Hoffman, Jiang Jiang, Katherine E. O. Todd-Brown, Ying Wang, Ying-Ping Wang, Yiqi Luo 

Publication date: 4 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We develop a theory for transit times and mean ages for nonautonomous compartmental systems. Using the McKendrick-von F"orster equation, we show that the mean ages of mass in a compartmental system satisfy a linear nonautonomous ordinary differential equation that is exponentially stable. We then define a nonautonomous version of transit time as the mean age of mass leaving the compartmental system at a particular time and show that our nonautonomous theory generalises the autonomous case. We apply these results to study a nine-dimensional nonautonomous compartmental system modeling the terrestrial carbon cycle, which is a modification of the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford approach (CASA) model, and we demonstrate that the nonautonomous versions of transit time and mean age differ significantly from the autonomous quantities when calculated for that model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02497

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zbMATH Keywords

exponential stabilitylinear systemnonautonomous dynamical systemcarbon cycleCASA modelcompartmental systemmean agetransit timeMcKendrick-von Förster equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear ordinary differential equations and systems (34A30) Asymptotic properties of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D05) Nonautonomous smooth dynamical systems (37C60)

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