A system of reaction-diffusion equations in the unstirred chemostat with an inhibitor

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 989-1009

  Nie, Hua ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemostat; Global bifurcation; Stability; Steady state solution

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CHEMOSTATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GLOBAL BIFURCATIONS; REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; STEADY-STATE SOLUTION;

NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 33745315413     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127406015246     Document Type: Article

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