Title
The simple chemostat with wall growth
Abstract
A model of the simple chemostat which allows for growth on the wall (or other marked surface) is presented as three nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The organisms which are attached to the wall do not wash out of the chemostat. This destroys the basic reduction of the chemostat equations to a monotone system, a technique which has been useful in the analysis of many chemostat-like equations. The adherence to and shearing from the wall eliminates the boundary equilibria. For a reasonably general model, the basic properties of invariance, dissipation, and uniform persistence are established. For two important special cases, global asymptotic results are obtained. Finally, a perturbation technique allows the special results to be extended to provide the rest point as a global attractor for nearby growth functions.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1137/S0036139997326181
SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
chemostat,wall growth,global stability
Attractor,Chemostat,Invariant (physics),Mathematical analysis,Shearing (physics),Dissipation,Nonlinear differential equations,Mathematics,Monotone polygon,Perturbation (astronomy)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
59
5
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
2.01
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sergei S. Pilyugin1327.31
Paul Waltman2168.48