Optimal Control of Vaccination in an Age-Structured Cholera Model
2016
A cholera model with continuous age structure is given as a system of hyperbolic (first-order) partial differential equations (PDEs) in combination with ordinary differential equations. Asymptomatic infected and susceptibles with partial immunity are included in this epidemiology model with vaccination rate as a control; minimizing the symptomatic infecteds while minimizing the cost of the vaccinations represents the goal. With the method of characteristics and a fixed point argument, the existence of a solution to our nonlinear state system is achieved. The representation and existence of a unique optimal control are derived. The steps to justify the optimal control results for such a system with first order PDEs are given. Numerical results illustrate the effect of age structure on optimal vaccination rates.
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