Cell-level modeling of nutrient competition on the growth of microalgal biomass

Journal of Chemometrics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 139-141

  Fleming, Steven David ^a   Vogt, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential equation system; Microalgal biomass production; Modeling nutrient competition; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ECOLOGY; NUTRIENTS;

BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CELL-LEVEL MODEL; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION SYSTEMS; MICRO-ALGAE; MICROALGAL BIOMASS; MICROALGAL BIOMASS PRODUCTION; MODELING NUTRIENT COMPETITION; MODELING PROCEDURE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; SPECIES COMPETITION;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 84923415374     PISSN: 08869383     EISSN: 1099128X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cem.2656     Document Type: Article

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7. max, β, and α change the shape of a growth curve Y(t). Also shown in that graph are examples of how well the modeling (1) describes the experimentally obtained data.
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