Global asymptotic behavior of a chemostat model with discrete delays

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1019-1043

  Wolkowicz, Gail S K ^a   Xia, Huaxing ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competition in chemostat; Competitive exclusion; Delayed growth response; Global attractivity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS;

COMPETITIVE EXCLUSION; DELAYED GROWTH RESPONSE;

CHEMOSTATS;

EID: 0031208159     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139995287314     Document Type: Article

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