A system of resource-based growth models with two resources in the unstirred chemostat

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 300-332

  Jianhua, Wu ^a   Wolkowicz, Gail S K ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chemostat; steady state solution; maximum principle; global attractivity; global bifurcation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035918674     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jdeq.2000.3870     Document Type: Article

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