The Simple Chemostat with Wall Growth

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The authors take the simplest chemostat model and modify it to account for wall growth. A term is added to account for the adherence of the organism to the wall and a term for shearing from the wall. Since the population on the wall does not wash out of the system, the corresponding term is removed from the equations. Due to these modifications the basic conservation principle of the chemostat is lost as well as the monotone dynamics of the system. A governing model of the chemostat is given by three nonlinear differential equations. This model has two rest points, a total washout state and an interior coexistence state. The global stability of the rest points are established in two biologically important special cases for strictly increasing growth functions. The main result may be formulated as follows: the interior rest point is globally stable when it exists.




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