Microbial competition for nutrient and wall sites in plug flow

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1576-1600

  Jones, Don A ^a   Smith, Hal ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREACTORS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROORGANISMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

STURM-LIOUVILLE EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; TUBULAR REACTORS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0033645729     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139998341588     Document Type: Article

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