scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1462615

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Authors L. E. Bobisud, J. E. Calvert

Publication date 13 December 2000

zbMATH Keywords

linear two-point boundary conditionmicroorganismsmonotonous solutionsrepetitive cyclic production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlocal and multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B10) Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B15) Population dynamics (general) (92D25)

Review text

Let \(u(t)\), \(t\in [0,1]\), be the mass of microorganisms under repetitive cyclic production in a vat and let \(M\) be the total mass of microorganisms plus nutrient. This can be modeled by the differential equation \[ u'(t)= u(t)h(t, u(t))(M- u(t)),\quad t\in [0,1], \] with the boundary condition \(u(0)= B=(1- \varepsilon)u(1)\), with \(B\geq 0\), \(0\leq\varepsilon< 1\), and \(h\) is a smooth positive function. It is shown that there are no solutions if \(B/(1- \varepsilon)\) is large and that, under suitable hypotheses, there are at least two monotonous solutions, which depend continuously on \(B\) and \(\varepsilon\), when \(B\) and \(\varepsilon\) are sufficiently small.

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