On a system of reaction-diffusion equations arising from competition with internal storage in an unstirred chemostat

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 248, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2470-2496

  Hsu, Sze Bi ^a   Jiang, Jifa ^b   Wang, Feng Bin ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competition of algaes; Droop's model; Global stability; Internal storage; Lower solutions; Maximum principle; Monotone dynamical system; Unstirred chemostat; Upper solutions; Variable yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249134212     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2009.12.014     Document Type: Article

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