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Simulations in the mathematical modeling of the spread of the Hantavirus
M A Aguirre1, G Abramson, A R Bishop
1Center for Advanced Studies and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. maaguir@fi.uba.ar
Abstract:
The range of validity of a recently proposed deterministic (mean field) model of the spread of the Hantavirus infection is studied with the help of Monte Carlo simulations for the evolution of mice populations. The simulation is found to reproduce earlier results on the average but to display additional behavior stemming from discreteness in mice number and from fluctuations of the finite size system. It is shown that mice diffusion affects those additional features of the simulation in a physically understandable manner, higher diffusion constants leading to greater agreement with the mean field results.

