Open AccessMODELING AND ANALYSIS OF THE DEPLETION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS BY BACTERIA WITH EXPLICIT DEPENDENCE ON DISSOLVED OXYGEN
Author(s) -
MISRA A. K.,
TIWARI P. K.,
GOYAL ASHISH,
SHUKLA J. B.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
natural resource modeling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.28
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1939-7445
pISSN - 0890-8575
DOI - 10.1111/nrm.12033
Subject(s) - pollutant , oxygen , environmental chemistry , chemistry , dissolved organic carbon , limiting oxygen concentration , organic chemistry
In this paper, a nonlinear mathematical model is proposed and analyzed to study the depletion of dissolved oxygen caused by interactions of organic pollutants with bacteria in a water body, such as lake. The system is assumed to be governed by three dependent variables, namely, the cumulative concentration of organic pollutants, the density of bacteria and the concentration of dissolved oxygen. In the model, the coefficient of interaction of organic pollutants with bacteria depends upon the concentration of dissolved oxygen nonlinearly and explicitly, which is the main focus of this paper, has never been studied before. The stability theory of differential equations is used to analyze the model and to confirm the analytical results numerical simulation is performed. The model analysis shows that if the coefficient of interaction mentioned above depends upon dissolved oxygen explicitly, the decrease in its concentration is more than the case when the interaction does not depend on dissolved oxygen and consequently the depletion of organic pollutants is also more in such a case.