1. Oscillatory behavior in microbial continuous culture with discrete time delay
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Lian, Hansheng, Feng, Enmin, Li, Xiaofang, Ye, Jianxiong, and Xiu, Zhilong
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TIME delay systems , *MATHEMATICAL models , *ORGANIC compounds , *FERMENTATION , *DELAY differential equations , *NUMERICAL analysis , *SIMULATION methods & models , *PHASE diagrams - Abstract
Abstract: By introducing discrete time delay into the model for producing 1,3-propanediol by microbial continuous fermentation, we consider the stability and Hopf bifurcation of the delay differential system. Through numerical simulations, we get the rule of branch value changing with parameter and draw the pictures of periodic solutions and phase diagrams with specified parameters. The effect of time delay suggests that the system can qualitatively describe oscillatory phenomena occurring in the experiment. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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