A vat contains a solution of cells and nutrients. Cell growth is a dynamic function of both cell concentration and nutrient concentration. This represents an unstable system with the current initial conditions and is thus a challange to control properly."
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N.25="wireLabel"*148x17<M>
n="cell mass"
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n="nutrient mass"
N.27="slider"(0.643,1.5,0.5)*5x60
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C="This block diagram simulates the classic preditor prey relationship between a yeast culture and nutrient broth. Using the slider block, you can control the flow rate and try to keep the populations at the initial conditions. Since the initial conditions were purposely set at unstable operating regions of the system, this should prove quite a challenge.
NOTE: It is a little easier to see what is happening if the plot is switched to XY mode."