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    • Infectious disease modeling
    • Mathematical biology

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    • Granuloma formation is central to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection persistence.
    • Oxygen dynamics within granulomas significantly impact Mtb survival and treatment efficacy.
    • Existing computational models often face limitations due to the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop an efficient computational method for modeling oxygen diffusion and consumption in Mtb granulomas.
    • To overcome the time-step limitations imposed by the CFL condition in explicit finite-difference methods.
    • To provide a tool for better understanding host-pathogen interactions during chronic Mtb infection.

    Main Methods:

    • Incorporation of a diffusion field model for oxygen usage and dispersion.
    • Implementation on a floating-point field for simulating oxygen dynamics.
    • Utilizing a matrix-based, steady-state approximate solution to the diffusion equation, bypassing the CFL condition.

    Main Results:

    • Demonstration of a method to model oxygen dynamics in host tissue during chronic Mtb infection.
    • Successful implementation of a diffusion model that avoids the impractical time-step constraints of explicit methods.
    • Visualization of oxygen diffusion profiles within a containment granuloma over time.

    Conclusions:

    • The developed method offers a computationally efficient approach to model oxygen dynamics in Mtb granulomas.
    • This technique facilitates more robust simulations of Mtb persistence and granuloma formation.
    • The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of oxygen in tuberculosis pathogenesis.