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Mathematical Modeling Of Competition For Light And Nutrients Between Phytoplankton Species In A Poorly Mixed Water Column, Thomas George Stojsavljevic
Mathematical Modeling Of Competition For Light And Nutrients Between Phytoplankton Species In A Poorly Mixed Water Column, Thomas George Stojsavljevic
Theses and Dissertations
Phytoplankton live in a complex environment with two essential resources forming various gradients. Light supplied from above is never homogeneously distributed in a body of water due to refraction and absorption from biomass present in the ecosystem and from other sources. Nutrients in turn are typically supplied from below. In poorly mixed water columns phytoplankton can be heterogeneously distributed forming various layering patterns. The relationship between the location and the thickness of the layers is an open problem of interest. Here we present three models which study how competition for light and resources can form common layering patterns seen in …
A Maximum Principle In The Engel Group, James Klinedinst
A Maximum Principle In The Engel Group, James Klinedinst
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In this thesis, we will examine the properties of subelliptic jets in the Engel group of step 3. Step-2 groups, such as the Heisenberg group, do not provide insight into the general abstract calculations. This thesis then, is the first explicit non-trivial computation of the abstract results.