scientific article; zbMATH DE number 175866

Publication date 18 May 1993

age structure asymptotic behavior biomass birth rate death rate internal structure Markov renewal theory population growth reproduction size structural models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.) (60K20) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0702.00033.] From the text (translated from the Russian): We consider a model of a population in which each individual is age \(a\) and is characterized by a certain set of variables \(X = (x_ 1,\dots,x_ n)\) (internal with respect to the population in the large) such as the size and biomass of the individual, etc. Such models have been called models of populations with age and internal structure or, for short, structural models. The dynamics of such a model is described by a function \(l(X,t,a)\) -- the density of the number of individuals that are age \(a\) at time \(t\) and the set of values of internal variables \(X\) that can be called the `condition' of the individual. The basic processes in the population are death and reproduction, depending for each individual on his age and condition. The accepted, but not the only possible expected value method for describing this model is the following system of equations: \[ (\text{A}_ 1) \quad\dot X = F(a,X),\quad (\text{A}_ 2)\quad\dot a = 1, \] \[ (\text{A}_ 3)\quad \partial l/\partial t + \partial l/\partial a + \text{div}(lF) = -\mu l,\quad (\text{A}_ 4)\quad l(X,0,a) = \varphi(X,a), \] \[ (\text{A}_ 5)\quad B(X,t) \equiv l(X,t,0) = \int_ E\int^ \infty_ 0 \beta(X,Y,a)l(Y,t,a)d Y da. \] Here \(F = (f_ 1(a,X),\cdots,f_ n(a,X))\) is the vector-function of velocities of the change of internal variables \(X\) (such that equations \({\text A}_ 1\) and \({\text A}_ 2\) describe the dynamics of the condition of an individual), \(\mu(a,X)\) is the death rate, \(\beta(X,Y,a)\) is the birth rate of individuals at condition \(X\) from parents of age \(a\) in condition \(Y\); \(\varphi(X,a)\) is the initial distribution; \(E = \{X = (x_ 1,\cdots,x_ n)\}\) is the set of all possible values of the variables \(X\), and, as a rule, \(E\) is a domain of the positive octant \(\mathbb{R}^ +_ n\). We assume that the initial conditions are compatible, i.e., \(\varphi(X,0) = \int_ E\int^ \infty_ 0\beta(X,Y,a)\varphi(Y,a)dYda\). We obtain a complete description of the asymptotic behavior of this model on the basis of Markov renewal theory.

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