Effects of spatial structure and diffusion on the performances of the chemostat

2010/11/16 by Alain Rapaport, Rapaport, Alain, Ihab Haidar +1
Medicine · Environmental Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models #Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.3742

Abstract

Given hydric capacity and nutrient flow of a chemostat-like system, we analyse the influence of a spatial structure on the output concentrations at steady-state. Three configurations are compared: perfectly-mixed, serial and parallel with diffusion rate. We show the existence of a threshold on the input concentration of nutrient for which the benefits of the serial and parallel configurations over the perfectly-mixed one are reversed. In addition, we show that the dependency of the output concentrations on the diffusion rate can be non-monotonic, and give precise conditions for the diffusion effect to be advantageous. The study encompasses dead-zone models

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