Competition in the chemostat: A distributed delay model and its global asymptotic behavior

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1281-1310

  Wolkowicz, Gail S K ^a   Xia, Huaxing ^a   Ruan, Shigui ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Competition; Competitive exclusion; Distributed delay; Global asymptotic behavior

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THEOREM PROVING;

DISTRIBUTED DELAY MODEL; FLUCTUATION LEMMA; LINEAR CHAIN TRICK TECHNIQUE;

CHEMOSTATS;

EID: 0031258276     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139995289842     Document Type: Article

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