Persistence of a single phytoplankton species

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 255
Speaker
Prof. Yuan Lou – Ohio State University – lou@math.ohio-state.eduhttp://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~lou/main.html
Organizer
Ronghua Pan
We investigate a nonlocal reaction-diffusion-advection equation which models the growth of a single phytoplankton species in a water column where the species depends solely on light for its metabolism. We study the combined effect of death rate, sinking or buoyant coe±cient, water column depth and vertical turbulent diffusion rate on the persistence of a single phytoplankton species. This is based upon a joint work with Sze-Bi Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University.