A stability analysis of a time-varying chemostat with pointwise delay

Math Biosci Eng. 2024 Jan 22;21(2):2691-2728. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2024119.

Abstract

This paper revisits a recently introduced chemostat model of one-species with a periodic input of a single nutrient which is described by a system of delay differential equations. Previous results provided sufficient conditions ensuring the existence and uniqueness of a periodic solution for arbitrarily small delays. This paper partially extends these results by proving-with the construction of Lyapunov-like functions-that the evoked periodic solution is globally asymptotically stable when considering Monod uptake functions and a particular family of nutrient inputs.

Keywords: Asymptotic stabilty; Lyapunov like functions; chemostat; nonautonomous differential delay equations; periodic solutions.