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In Chapter 2 we considered the chemostat model and used mathematics to answer the question: How should we choose the outflow rate in order to harvest the maximum amount of bacteria. Our model however was incomplete because we assumed that the nutrient concentration in the growth chamber is constant in time, and hence our answer is questionable. In the present chapter we want to correct the answer, by basing it on a more complete mathematical model of the chemostat.
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Chou, CS., Friedman, A. (2016). The Chemostat Model Revisited. In: Introduction to Mathematical Biology. Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29638-8_8
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