Interdisciplinary projects
Active Brownian Particles and contagion dynamics
Active Brownian Particles (ABP) describe the self-propelled motion of particles in dissipative environments. ABP can be implemented by introducing an N-body classical equation of motion with stochastic noise. In particular, ABP can be used to model the contagion dynamics of living agents that transmit an infectious disease in space and time. By performing ABP simulations and statistical analysis, it is possible to describe susceptible, infected, and recovered groups in terms of particle densities, activity, contagious rates, and random recovery times.
Projects
Understanding contagion dynamics through active Brownian particles
Ariel Norambuena, Felipe Valencia, and Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, Scientific Reports 10, 20845 (2020)
Sequential epidemic spread between agglomerates of self-propelled agents in one dimension
Pablo de Castro, Felipe Urbina, Ariel Norambuena, and Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, arXiv:2303.17645
Collaborators
Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, Universidad de Chile
Pablo de Castro, ICTP Brazil