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July  2019, 24(7): 3439-3451. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018327

Complex dynamics in a discrete-time size-structured chemostat model with inhibitory kinetics

Dan Zhang a,b, , Xiaochun Cai c, and  Lin Wang d,,

a. 

School of Mathematics and Computational Science, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, 411105, Hunan, China
b. 

School of Computer Science and Network Security, Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, 523808, Guangdong, China
c. 

College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410079, Hunan, China
d. 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada

* Corresponding author: Lin Wang

Received  May 2018 Revised  August 2018 Published  January 2019

Fund Project: The work of DZ was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11501193) and the China Post Doctorial Fund (No. 2015M582335). LW was partially supported by a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

An inhibitory uptake function is incorporated into the discrete, size-structured nonlinear chemostat model developed by Arino et al. (Journal of Mathematical Biology, 45(2002)). Different from the model with a monotonically increasing uptake function, we show that the inhibitory kinetics can induce very complex dynamics including stable equilibria, cycles and chaos (via the period-doubling cascade). In particular, when the nutrient concentration in the input feed to the chemostat $ S^0 $ is larger than the upper break-even concentration value $ \mu $, the model exhibits three types of bistability allowing a stable equilibrium to coexist with another stable equilibrium, or a stable cycle or a chaotic attractor.

Keywords: Chemostat model, inhibitory kinetics, discrete time, chaos, bistability.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 39A30, 92D25.
Citation: Dan Zhang, Xiaochun Cai, Lin Wang. Complex dynamics in a discrete-time size-structured chemostat model with inhibitory kinetics. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, 2019, 24 (7) : 3439-3451. doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2018327
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J. F. Andrews, A mathematical model for the continuous culture of microorganisms utilizing inhibitory substrates, Biotech. Bioeng., 10 (1968), 707-723.   Google Scholar

[2]

J. Arino, J.-L. Gouze and A. Sciandra, A discrete, size-structured model of phytoplankton growth in the chemostat, J. Math. Biol., 45 (2002), 313-336.  doi: 10.1007/s002850200160.  Google Scholar

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R. A. Armstrong and R. McGehee, Competitive exclusion, Am. Nat., 115 (1980), 151-170.  doi: 10.1086/283553.  Google Scholar

[4]

L. Becks, F. M. Hilker, H. Malchow, K. Jürgens and H. Arndt, Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web, Nature, 435 (2005), 1226-1229.   Google Scholar

[5]

B. Boon and H. Laudeuout, Kinetics of nitrite oxidation by Nitrobacter winogradskyi, Biochem. J., 85 (1962), 440-447.   Google Scholar

[6]

A. W. Bush and A. E. Cook, The effect of time delay and growth rate inhibition in the bacterial treatment of wastewater, J. Theor. Biol., 63 (1976), 385-395.   Google Scholar

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[8]

E. P. Cohen and H. Eagle, A simplified chemostat for the growth of mammalian cells: characteristics of cell growth in continuous culture, J. Exp. Med., 113 (1961), 467-474.   Google Scholar

[9]

J. M. Cushing, A competition model for size-structured species, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 49 (1989), 838-858.  doi: 10.1137/0149049.  Google Scholar

[10]

J. M. Cushing, An Introduction to Structured Population Dynamics, Reginal Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 71, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 1998. doi: 10.1137/1.9781611970005.  Google Scholar

[11]

D. E. Dykhuizen and A. M. Dean, Evolution of specialists in an experimental microcosm, Genetics, 167 (2005), 2015-2026.   Google Scholar

[12]

T. B. K. Gage, F. M. Williams and J. B. Horton, Division synchrony and the dynamics of microbial populations: A size-specific model, Theor. Pop. Bio., 26 (1984), 296-314.  doi: 10.1016/0040-5809(84)90035-2.  Google Scholar

[13]

M. Golubitsky, E. B. Keeler and M. Rothschild, Convergence of the age-structure: Applications of the projective metric, Theor. Pop. Bio., 7 (1975), 84-93.  doi: 10.1016/0040-5809(75)90007-6.  Google Scholar

[14]

S. R. Hansen and S. P. Hubbell, Single nutrient microbial competition: Agreement between experimental and theoretical forecast outcomes, Science, 207 (1980), 1491-1493.   Google Scholar

[15]

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L. Jones and S. P. Ellner, Effects of rapid prey evolution on predator-prey cycles, J. Math. Biol., 55 (2007), 541-573.  doi: 10.1007/s00285-007-0094-6.  Google Scholar

[17]

J. L. Jost, J. F. Drake, A. G. Fredrickson and H. M. Tsuchiya, Interactions of Tetrahymena pyriformis, Escherichia coli, Azotobacter vinelandu and glucose in a minimal medium, J. Bacteriol., 113 (1973), 834-841.   Google Scholar

[18]

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S. Pavlou and I. G. Kevrekidis, Microbial predation in a periodically operated chemostat: A global study of the interaction between natural and externally imposed frequencies, Math. Biosci., 108 (1992), 1-55.  doi: 10.1016/0025-5564(92)90002-E.  Google Scholar

[20]

E. Senior, A. T. Bull and J. H. Slater, Enzyme evolution in a microbial community growing on the herbicide Dalapon, Nature, 263 (1976), 476-479.   Google Scholar

[21]

H. L. Smith, A discrete, size-structured model of microbial growth and competition in the chemostat, J. Math. Biol., 34 (1996), 734-754.  doi: 10.1007/BF00161517.  Google Scholar

[22]
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H. L. Smith and X.-Q. Zhao, Competitive exclusion in a discrete-time, size-structured chemostat model, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B, 1 (2001), 183-191.  doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2001.1.183.  Google Scholar

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L. Wang and G. S. K. Wolkowicz, A delayed chemostat model with general delayed response functions and differential removal rates, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 321 (2006), 452-468.  doi: 10.1016/j.jmaa.2005.08.014.  Google Scholar

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H. A. Wichman, J. Millstein and J. J. Bull, Adaptive molecular evolution for 13,000 phage generations: A possible arms race, Genetics, 170 (2005), 19-31.   Google Scholar

[26]

L. M. Wick, H. Weilenmann and T. Egli, The apparent clock-like evolution of Escherichia coli in glucose-limited chemostats is reproducible at large but not at small population sizes and can be explained with Monod kinetics, Microbiology (Reading, Engl.), 148 (2002), 2889-2902.   Google Scholar

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G. S. K. Wolkowicz and Z. Lu, Global dynamics of a mathematical model of competition in the chemostat: general response functions and differential death rates, SIAM J. Appl. Math., 52 (1992), 222-233.  doi: 10.1137/0152012.  Google Scholar

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J. Wu, H. Nie and G. S. K. Wolkowicz, The effect of inhibitor on the plasmid-bearing and plasmid-free model in the unstirred chemostat, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 38 (2007), 1860-1885.  doi: 10.1137/050627514.  Google Scholar

[29]

H. Xia, G. S. K. Wolkowicz and L. Wang, Transient oscillations induced by delayed growth response in the chemostat, J. Math. Biol., 50 (2005), 489-530.  doi: 10.1007/s00285-004-0311-5.  Google Scholar

Figure 1.  Bifurcation diagram of the limiting system (7). Here $ f(s) = \frac{as}{1+0.1s+0.01s^2}, E = 0.1, S^{0} = 100, U_{0} = 70 $ with $ a\in[0.049, 0.059] $ Thus $ aS^{0}>1 $ and $ S^{0}> \mu $. A cascade of period-doublings to chaos occurs as $ a $ increases
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Figure 2.  Left: a numerical solution of the limiting system (7) with $ U_0 = 60 $; Right: a numerical solution of system (11) with $ (U_0, S_0) = (60,6) $. Here $ f(s) = \frac{0.05s}{1+0.1s+0.01s^2} $, $ E = 0.1 $, $ S^{0} = 100 $
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Figure 3.  Numerical solutions of system (11) with $ f(s) = \frac{0.05s}{1+0.1s+0.01s^2} $, $ E = 0.1 $, $ S^{0} = 100 $. Left: $ (U_t,S_t)\to E_0 = (0, S^0) $ as $ t\to\infty $, initial condition $ (U_0, S_0) = (10,6) $ was used; Right: $ (U_t, S_t) \to E_1 = (S^0-\lambda, \lambda) $ as $ t\to\infty $, initial condition was $ (U_0, S_0) = (80,6) $
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Figure 4.  Numerical solutions of system (11) with $ f(s) = \frac{0.054s}{1+0.1s+0.01s^2} $, $ E = 0.1 $, $ S^{0} = 100 $. Left: $ (U_t,S_t)\to (0, S^0) $ as $ t\to\infty $, initial condition $ (U_0, S_0) = (10,6) $ was used; Right: $ (U_t, S_t) $ approaches a stable $ 2-cycle $, initial condition was $ (U_0, S_0) = (80,6) $
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Figure 5.  Numerical solutions of system (11) with $ f(s) = \frac{0.059s}{1+0.1s+0.01s^2} $, $ E = 0.1 $, $ S^{0} = 100 $. Left: $ (U_t,S_t)\to (0, S^0) $ as $ t\to\infty $, initial condition $ (U_0, S_0) = (10,6) $ was used; Right: $ (U_t, S_t) $ approaches a chaotic attractor, initial condition was $ (U_0, S_0) = (80,6) $
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