Modeling the epidemic dynamics of COVID-19: Agent-based approach including molecular dynamics simulation and SEIR type methods

Abstract

In this study, we developed a SEIR model, including social interactions and individual human mobility in everyday activities. For this purpose, daily mobility of people was considered by using the molecular dynamic method and the virus spreading was modeled employing the ordinary SEIR scheme. Utilizing this model, the variation of population size, density, and health strategy as well as the effect of busy places such as malls, were considered. The results show that our flexible model is able to consider the effects of different parameters such as distance between peoples, local population density and health strategy in the outbreak. © 2021 World Scientific Publishing Company.