Browsing by Author "Gogovi, Gideon K."

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    Comparison of the anisotropic and isotropic macroscopic traffic flow models
    (Engineering and Applied Science Letters, 2023-06) Fosu, Gabriel Obed; Gogovi, Gideon K.; Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy K.; 0000-0002-7066-246X
    Second-order macroscopic vehicular traffic flow models are categorized under two broad headings based on the direction of their characteristics. Faster-than-vehicle waves are often called isotropic models vis-á-vis anisotropic models with slower-than-vehicle characteristic speed. The dispute on the supremacy among these families of models is the motivation for this paper. This paper compares and contrasts six distinctive second-order macroscopic models using a numerical simulation and analysis. Three models are characterized by faster-than-vehicle waves with their corresponding anisotropic counterparts. Simulation results on the formation of deceleration waves and the dissolution of acceleration fans are presented to graphically compare the wave profiles of the selected isotropic and anisotropic traffic models. Observably, these opposing models can all characterize these physical traffic phenomena to the same degree. Thus, faster characteristic speed conceptualization of second-order macroscopic equations does not tantamount to model failure but rather lies in the explanation of this property.
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    Investigating Protein Structure Populations from Simulation Data using Unsupervised Learning
    (IEEE, 2022-02) Gogovi, Gideon K.; Asamoah, Joshua Kiddy K.; Fosu, Gabriel Obed; 0000-0002-7066-246X
    Data obtained from molecular dynamics simulation provides important intuition into the dynamical interactions of biological molecules. The chronicles of sequential time-dependent atomic motions of configurations obtained from simulation and the derived properties estimated from molecule’s trajectory is specified by this sequence. Therefore, knowing how to efficiently extract representative structures from simulation data is important because often, we will want to identify changes in conformation of a protein structure when simulation is performed. We use unsupervised machine learning techniques to cluster such data and investigated a few of protein structural properties. The algorithms implemented in this paper presents clusters of the simulation data that tends to group frames from an adjacent block of time together, even when sampling at 10 ps intervals. We found that sampling of conformational space for a shorter run simulation may not be able to completely visit all structures that belong to a specific cluster. But for the sufficiently long simulation, the systems revisit previous clusters repeatedly. Cluster populations change rapidly at the initial stage of the simulations, but became steady before each got to their terminal values, indicating equilibrium attainment. Investigation of protein structure properties also attest the correspondence between clusters of protein structures obtained from the clustering algorithms.