Controle ótimo: custos no controle de propagações populacionais

Abstract

The goal of this work is to study some applications of the theory of optimal control for biological problems. Thus, initially we present the study of two different models: “Optimal Control of Biological Invasions in Lake Network” proposed by Potapov et al. [13], and “Simulating optimal Vaccination Times During Cholera Outbreaks” proposed by Modnak et al. [9]. The models have their dynamics based on ordinary differential equations and are minimizing the functional with a single and with several restrictions, respectively. The first model uses optimal control theory to minimize costs with prevention and together with the costs generated by the damage of the invasion, the second model applies optimal control to minimize costs in the vaccination and treatment of infected individuals during cholera outbreak. Based on models proposed by Vieira and Takahashi on “The Virus Survival varicella-zoster”, [16], and by Shulgin et al. in “Pulse vaccination strategy in the SIR epidemic model”, [14], we propose a mathematical model that considers a vaccination of the population as a varicella control strategy. We use the optimal control theory to define necessary conditions to minimize the costs of vaccination and treatment of infected individuals with chickenpox or with herpes zoster. The dynamics is based on ordinary differential equations which are the constraints under which we want to minimize the functional in the optimal control theory.