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Time delay in simple chemostat models

✍ Scribed by N. Macdonald

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1976
Tongue
English
Weight
306 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3592

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The models of Monod and Williams, for the growth of unicellular organisms in chemostats, give strongly damped transients in the biomass and cell number when the flow rate of the chemostat is changed. A simple trick is used to incorporate time delay in these models while still allowing a conventional stability analysis. For long enough time delays the equilibrium point is unstable and limit cycles can be computed. Results obtained using Williams' model, with weakly damped transients as a result of using moderately long time delay, are compared with his data in which cell numbers show weak damping but biomass shows strong damping.

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