Basic chemostat model revisited

Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 3-16

  Hari Rao, V Sree ^a   Sekhara Rao, P Raja ^b  

^a MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Mathematics   (India)

Author keywords

Basic chemostat model; Existence and uniqueness of solutions; Global stability; Lipschitz condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859717080     PISSN: 09713514     EISSN: 09746870     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12591-009-0001-2     Document Type: Article

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