Simple chemostat with wall growth

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1552-1572

  Pilyugin, Sergei S ^a   Waltman, Paul ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY;

CHEMOSTATS;

EID: 0033349132     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139997326181     Document Type: Article

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