Simulation of Biological and Environmental Processes

Author
Tadashi Takakura, Jung Eek Son
Price
4,200 yen (excl. tax)
ISBN
978-4-87378-848-7
Format
15.2 x 1.5 x 22.6 cm (6 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches), Hardback, 140 pages
Published
December 2004
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Introduction

This book was written for graduate students in the biological and horticultural sciences and has been used as a textbook in the class “Simulation of Biological Systems” at the University of Arizona.

Contents

  Chapter 1. Introduction
  Chapter 2. Basic Modelling
    Concept of analog computer
    Merits and demerits of Berkeley Madonna
  Chapter 3. Available Functions
 
   Basic functions in Berkeley Madonna
    How to make a program
  Chapter 4. Basic Patterns of Change and Basics of Simulation
 
   Ideal growth and actual growth
    Decay and response
    Periodic change and chemical reaction
    Normal distribution and negative quadratic equation for optimum curve
    How to develop models by differential equations
  Chapter 5. Growth and Related Models
 
   Growth of yeast
    Growth and photosynthesis of potato plantlets
    Plant growth model
  Chapter 6. Ecological Models
 
   Host-parasite and predator-prey
    Biological reaction tank
    Aqua ecosystem
    Gaia hypothesis
  Chapter 7. Soil Transport Models
 
   Temperature regime in soil
    Carbon dioxide environment in soil layer
    Solute movement in soil
  Chapter 8. Pollution Model
 
   Lake pollution
    Insecticide stored in fish
    DDT dispersion and accumulation in an ecosystem
  Chapter 9. Extended Models
    How to define and use plug-in functions(user-defined functions)
    Soil layer model with radiation exchange at the surface
    Soil layer model with radiation exchange and latent heat exchange
    A greenhouse model
    Design of evaporative cooling greenhouses
    A greenhouse model with evaporative cooling
    Plant stomata response to the environment

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