RE: transit compartment question
Dear Ethan,
The analytical solution for the transit model is derived for the chain of
n+1 transit compartments. You will notice that the part of analytical
solution is factorial function (n!). If the chain had a length of n transit
compartments, one would need to use factorial for (n-1). This would require
bounding of initial conditions for n (lower boundary at 1). Whichever
approach you use, the outcome shall be the same. Clearly, our preferred
approach is the one we published.
Hope this helps,
Rada
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ethan Wu
Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 10:11 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NMusers] transit compartment question
Hi all,
I was implementing transit compartment for a absorption model for the
first time. I could not understand why the relationship between mean transit
time and transit rate is MTT=(n+1)/Ktr.
Could someone help me understand?
Thank you.