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Transit times and mean ages for nonautonomous and autonomous compartmental systems
Rasmussen, Martin Hastings, Alan Smith, Matthew J. Agusto, Folashade B. Chen-Charpentier, Benito M. Hoffman, Forrest M. Jiang, Jiang Todd-Brown, Katherine E. O. Wang, Ying Wang, Ying-Ping
Rasmussen, Martin
Hastings, Alan
Smith, Matthew J.
Agusto, Folashade B.
Chen-Charpentier, Benito M.
Hoffman, Forrest M.
Jiang, Jiang
Todd-Brown, Katherine E. O.
Wang, Ying
Wang, Ying-Ping
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We develop a theory for transit times and mean ages for nonautonomous compartmental systems. Using the McKendrick–von Förster 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 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.
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2016-04-01
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Springer Verlag
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Carbon cycle, CASA model, Compartmental system, Exponential stability, Linear system, McKendrick-von Forster equation, Mean age, Nonautonomous dynamical system, Transit time
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Transit times and mean ages for nonautonomous and autonomous compartmental systems
Martin Rasmussen, Alan Hastings, Matthew J. Smith, Folashade B. Agusto, Benito M. Chen-Charpentier, Forrest M. Hoffman, Jiang Jiang, Katherine E. O. Todd-Brown, Ying Wang, Ying-Ping Wang, Yiqi Luo
J Math Biol. 2016; 73(6): 1379–1398. Published online 2016 Apr 1. doi: 10.1007/s00285-016-0990-8