Asymptotic behavior of an unstirred chemostat model with internal inhibitor

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Volumn 334, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 889-908

  Nie, Hua ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymptotic behavior; Chemostat; Monotone system; Perturbation theory; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250616787     PISSN: 0022247X     EISSN: 10960813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2007.01.014     Document Type: Article

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