Global Stability Analysis of the Age-Structured Chemostat With Substrate Dynamics
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| author | Karafyllis, Iasson Theodosis, Dionysios Krstic, Miroslav |
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| contents | In this paper we study the stability properties of the equilibrium point for an age-structured chemostat model with renewal boundary condition and coupled substrate dynamics under constant dilution rate. This is a complex infinite-dimensional feedback system. It has two feedback loops, both nonlinear. A positive static loop due to reproduction at the age-zero boundary of the PDE, counteracted and dominated by a negative dynamic loop with the substrate dynamics. The derivation of explicit sufficient conditions that guarantee global stability estimates is carried out by using an appropriate Lyapunov functional. The constructed Lyapunov functional guarantees global exponential decay estimates and uniform global asymptotic stability with respect to a measure related to the Lyapunov functional. From a biological perspective, stability arises because reproduction is constrained by substrate availability, while dilution, mortality, and substrate depletion suppress transient increases in biomass before age-structure effects can amplify them. The obtained results are applied to a chemostat model from the literature, where the derived stability condition is compared with existing results that are based on (necessarily local) linearization methods. |
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| spellingShingle | Global Stability Analysis of the Age-Structured Chemostat With Substrate Dynamics Karafyllis, Iasson Theodosis, Dionysios Krstic, Miroslav Dynamical Systems Systems and Control Optimization and Control Populations and Evolution In this paper we study the stability properties of the equilibrium point for an age-structured chemostat model with renewal boundary condition and coupled substrate dynamics under constant dilution rate. This is a complex infinite-dimensional feedback system. It has two feedback loops, both nonlinear. A positive static loop due to reproduction at the age-zero boundary of the PDE, counteracted and dominated by a negative dynamic loop with the substrate dynamics. The derivation of explicit sufficient conditions that guarantee global stability estimates is carried out by using an appropriate Lyapunov functional. The constructed Lyapunov functional guarantees global exponential decay estimates and uniform global asymptotic stability with respect to a measure related to the Lyapunov functional. From a biological perspective, stability arises because reproduction is constrained by substrate availability, while dilution, mortality, and substrate depletion suppress transient increases in biomass before age-structure effects can amplify them. The obtained results are applied to a chemostat model from the literature, where the derived stability condition is compared with existing results that are based on (necessarily local) linearization methods. |
| title | Global Stability Analysis of the Age-Structured Chemostat With Substrate Dynamics |
| topic | Dynamical Systems Systems and Control Optimization and Control Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25276 |