K. Renee Fister, Suzanne Lenhart, & Joseph Scott McNally
Abstract:
We examine an ordinary differential system modeling the interaction
of the HIV virus and the immune system of the human body. The optimal
control represents a percentage effect the chemotherapy has on the
interaction of the CD4+T cells with the virus. We maximize the
benefit based on the T cell count and minimize the systemic cost based
on the percentage of chemotherapy given. Existence of an optimal
control is proven, and the optimal control is uniquely characterized
in terms of the solution of the optimality system, which is the
state system coupled with the adjoint system. In addition,
numerical examples are given for illustration.
Submitted April 15, 1998. Published December 4, 1998.
Math Subject Classification: 34B15, 49K15, 92D30.
Key Words: Chemotherapy, HIV, Optimal Control.
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Suzanne Lenhart
Department of Mathematics,
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
e-mail : lenhart@math.utk.edu
Joseph Scott McNally
School of Medicine, Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322 USA
e-mail: jmcnall@learnlink.emory.edu