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A Reduced Mechanistic Model for Aquatic Decomposition of a Human Body
Ufuk Akın, Ömer Faruk Aykır, Neslihan Nesliye Pelen, Melike Kaplan
This paper develops a reduced mechanistic ODE model for estimating postmortem submersion interval (PMSI) by linking tissue degradation, microbial activity, and dissolved oxygen dynamics, showing that accurate TADS reproduction alone is insufficient for reliable parameter inference.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.29.755382