An evolution equation for a population of strings evolving under the genetic operators: selection, mutation and crossover is derived. The corresponding equation describing the evolution of schematas is found by performing an exact coarse graining of this equation. In particular exact expressions for schemata reconstruction are derived which allows for a critical appraisal of the “building-block...

The progression of a cell population where each individual is characterized by the value of an internal variable varying with time (e.g. size, mass, and protein concentration) is typically modelled by a population balance equation, a first-order linear hyperbolic partial differential equation. The characteristics described by internal variables usually vary monotonically with the passage of tim...

The homogeneous balance method can be used to construct exact traveling wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. In this paper, this method is used to construct new soliton solutions of the (3+1) Jimbo--Miwa equation.

Early researchers hoped to describe ball milling as a series of particle breakage and re-breakage events. This review reveals that needed input population balance modeling (PBM), the “breakage function,” was never intended be taken literally but assumed solve matrix calculations. Along with liquid-tracer–based residence time, rates each size class (the “selection function”) could then back-calc...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeast) can exhibit sustained oscillations during the operation in a continuous bioreactor that adversely affects its stability and productivity. Because of heterogeneous nature of cell populations, the cell population balance equation (PBE) can be used to capture the dynamic behavior of such cultures. In this work, an unstructured-segregated model is used f...