Abstract
In this paper, we present a stochastic eutrophication-chemostat model with impulsive dredging and pulse inputting on environmental toxicant. The sufficient condition for the extinction of microorganisms is obtained. The sufficient condition for the investigated system with unique ergodic stationary distribution is also obtained. The results show that the stochastic noise, impulsive dredging, and pulse input on the environmental toxicant play important roles in the extinction of microorganisms. The results also indicate the effective and reliable controlling strategy for water resource management. Finally, numerical simulations are employed to illustrate our results.
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1 Introduction
The chemostat is a device for continuous and impulsive cultures of microorganisms in laboratory [1–3]. Impulsive differential equations are found in almost every domain of applied science and have been studied in many investigations [4, 5]. With the development of society, the increasing amount of toxicants and contaminants have entered ecological systems. Environmental pollution has become one of the most important society-ecological problems. Therefore, it is very important to study the effects of toxicants on a population or community. Specially, the toxicant and abundant microorganisms in the water pollution environment are also a threat to the water resource management. Consequently, it is important to discuss chemostat models in a polluted environment [6, 7]. Zhou et al. [8] considered that reservoir dredging is the main and effective way to improve water quality by using a physical method. However, it is well known that many real-world systems may be disturbed by stochastic factors. Population systems are often subjected to various types of environmental noise. In ecology, it is critical to discover whether the presence of this noise has significant effects on population systems. Mao [9, 10] investigated stochastic differential equations and their applications. Lv et al. [11] presented an impulsive stochastic chemostat model with nonlinear perturbation.
2 The model
Inspired by the above discussion, we consider a stochastic eutrophication-chemostat model with impulsive dredging and pulse inputting on environmental toxicant:
where \(x(t)\) is the concentration of the nutrient in a lake at time t. \(y(t)\) is the concentration of the microorganism in a lake at time t. \(c_{o}(t)\) is the concentration of the toxicant in the organism of the microorganism in a lake at time t. \(c_{e}(t)\) is the concentration of the toxicant in a lake at time t. D denotes the input rate from the lakes containing the nutrient and the wash-out rate of nutrients and microorganisms from the lake. \(\beta >0\) is the uptake constant of the nutrient. \(\frac{x(t)}{A+x(t)+By(t)}\) is a functional response of the Beddington–DeAngelis type. \(k>0\) is the yield of the microorganism y per unit mass of the nutrient. \(A>0\) and \(B>0\) are the saturating parameters of the Beddington–DeAngelis functional response. \(r>0\) is the depletion rate coefficient of the microorganism y due to the microorganism organismal toxicant. \(f>0\) is the coefficient of the population organism’s net uptake of toxicant from the environment in a lake. \(-g<0\) and \(-m<0\), respectively, represent coefficients of the elimination and depuration rates of the toxicant in the organism in a lake. \(-h<0\) is the coefficient of the totality of toxicant losses from the system environment in a lake, including processes such as biological transformation, chemical hydrolysis, volatilization, microbial degradation, and photosynthetic degradation. τ is the period of impulsive dredging or the pulse input environmental toxin. \(0< h_{1}<1\) is the effect of impulsive dredging microorganism at time \(t=(n+l)\) (\(0< l<1\)). \(0< h_{2}<1\) is the effect of impulsive dredging environmental toxicant at time \(t=(n+l)\) (\(0< l<1\)). \(\mu \geq 0 \) is the amount of pulse input of environmental toxin concentration in a lake at \(t=(n+1)\tau \), \(n\in Z^{+}\), and \(Z^{+}=\{1,2,\ldots \}\).
3 The lemmas
In this paper, \((\varOmega , \mathscr{F},\mathscr{F}_{t\geq 0},P)\) stands for a complete probability space with filtration \(\mathscr{F}_{t\geq 0}\) satisfying the usual conditions. Define \(f^{l}=\inf_{t\in R_{+}}f(t)\), \(f(t)\) is a bounded function on \([0,+\infty )\), \(\langle f(t)\rangle =\frac{1}{t}\int _{0}^{t} f(s) \,ds\), where \(f(t)\) is an integrable function on \([0,+\infty )\).
Consider the subsystem of system (2.1) as follows:
With regard to system (3.1), we have the following equations with integrating and solving the first two equations of system (3.1) between pulses:
The stroboscopic map of system (3.1) is obtained by the last two equations of system (3.1):
We can easily have a unique fixed point \((c_{o}^{\ast },c_{e}^{\ast })\) of system (3.3) as follows:
The unique fixed point \((c_{o}^{\ast },c_{e}^{\ast })\) of system (3.3) is globally asymptotically stable for the eigenvalues of the coefficient matrix of system (3.3)
are less 1, there is no need for calculating ⋆.
Similar to Lemma 3.3 in reference [6], we can obtain the following lemma.
Lemma 3.1
System (3.1) has a unique positive τ-periodic solution \((\widetilde{c_{o}(t)},\widetilde{c_{e}(t)})\), which is also globally asymptotically stable, \(\widetilde{c_{o}(t)}\)and \(\widetilde{c_{e}(t)}\)are defined as follows:
where \(c_{o}^{\ast }\), \(c_{e}^{\ast }\)are defined as (3.4), and
Remark 3.2
For any positive solution \((c_{o}(t),c_{e}(t))\) of system (3.1) with the initial value \((c_{o}(0),c_{e}(0))\in R^{+}_{2}\), we can obtain
where \(c^{\ast }_{o}\) and \(c^{\ast }_{e}\) are defined as (3.4), and \(c^{\ast \ast }_{o}\) and \(c^{\ast \ast }_{e}\) are defined as (3.6).
For convenience, we consider the following notation:
Define \((x(t),y(t))\) and \((w(t),z(t))\) are the solutions of the subsystem of system (2.1), respectively:
and the following SDE without impulsive perturbations:
with the initial value \(w(0)=x(0)\) and \(z(0)=y(0)\).
Lemma 3.3
The solutions \((x(t),y(t))\)of the subsystem of system (2.1) can also be expressed as follows:
where \((w(t),z(t))\)is the solution of (3.10).
Proof
One can find that \((x(t),y(t))\) is continuous on the interval \((\tau _{n},\tau _{n+l})\), and for \(t\neq \tau _{n+l}\),
For every \(n\in N\), and \(\tau _{n+l}\in [0,+\infty )\),
and
□
Assumption 3.4
([12])
There exists a bounded domain \(U\subset E_{d}\) with regular boundary, then
- (\(A_{1}\)):
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In the open domain U and some neighborhood thereof, the smallest eigenvalue of the diffusion matrix \(A(x)\) is bounded away from zero;
- (\(A_{2}\)):
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If \(x\in E_{d}\setminus U\), the mean time τ at which a path issuing from x reaches the set U is finite, and \(\sup_{x\in K}E_{x}\tau <\infty \) for every compact subset \(K\subset U_{d}\).
Assumption 3.4 is a general assumption which is the condition for Lemma 3.6.
Lemma 3.5
([12])
If Assumption 3.4holds, the Markov process \(X(t)\)has a stationary distribution \(\mu (\cdot )\), and
where f is an integrable function with respect to the measure μ.
4 The dynamics
In the following theorem, we devote ourselves to investigating system (3.10).
Theorem 4.1
If \(\frac{\beta }{A}\int ^{\infty }_{0}w\phi (w)\,dw< D+r\widetilde{c_{o}}+ \frac{\sigma ^{2}_{21}}{2}\)holds, then
where for \(x\in (0,+\infty )\)
and constant C satisfies that \(\int ^{\infty }_{0}\phi (x)\,dx=1\).
Proof
Constructing the following auxiliary differential equation:
with the initial value \(W(0)=x(0)>0\), we assume that \(W(t)\) is the solution of (4.3). Obviously, the following inequality can be obtained by the comparison theorem for stochastic differential equations:
We set
and compute the following indefinite integral:
Then
Hence,
This indicates that SDE (4.3) has the ergodic property. By the ergodic theorem, we have
Applying Itô’s formula, we have
Integrating with respect to t from 0 to t on both sides of (4.10), we have
where \(M(t)=\sigma _{22}\prod_{0<\tau _{n+l}<t}(1-h_{n+l})\int ^{t}_{0}z(s)\,dB_{2}(t)\) and its quadratic variation is given by
According to the exponential martingales inequality, for any positive τ, α, β,
Let \(T=k_{1}\), \(a=1\), \(b=\ln k_{1}\), then
There exists random \(k^{0}_{1}\in k_{1}(\omega )\) such that \(k_{1}>k^{0}_{1}\) for almost all \(\omega \in \varOmega \). We can obtain the following by the Borel–Cantelli lemma:
Therefore
Considering (4.11) and (4.16), we have
Then, for \(0\leq k_{1}-1\leq t\leq k_{1}\), we have
Taking the superior limit on both sides of (4.18), note that
and \(t\rightarrow +\infty \Rightarrow k_{1}\rightarrow +\infty \), we have
Then we obtain
This implies that if \(\frac{\beta }{A}\int ^{\infty }_{0}w\phi (w)\,dw< D+r\widetilde{c_{o}}+ \frac{\sigma ^{2}_{21}}{2}\) holds, then
This completes the proof. □
Remark 4.2
According to Lemma 3.3 and Theorem 4.1, one can easily obtain
Theorem 4.3
If \(\frac{\beta }{A}\int ^{\infty }_{0}w\phi (w)\,dw< D+r\widetilde{c_{o}}+ \frac{\sigma ^{2}_{21}}{2}\)holds, the distribution of \(x(t)\)converges weakly to the measure which has the density \(\pi (x)\).
Proof
For any small \(\varepsilon >0\), there exist \(t_{0}\) and a set \(\varOmega _{\varepsilon }\subset \varOmega \) such that \(\mathbb{P}(\varOmega _{\varepsilon })>1-\varepsilon \) and \(\frac{ xy}{k(A+x+By)}\leq \varepsilon x\) for \(t\geq t_{0}\) and \(\omega \in \varOmega _{\varepsilon }\). Then
This shows that the distribution of the process \(x(t)\) converges weakly to the measure with density \(\pi (x)\). □
Theorem 4.4
If \(Dx_{0}\beta >(D+\sigma _{11}^{2}+ \frac{2\sigma _{12}Dx_{0}}{\sigma _{11}})(D+rc^{u}_{o}+\frac{1}{2} \sigma _{21}^{2})\)holds, system (3.10) admits a unique stationary distribution and it has ergodic property for initial \((w(0),z(0))\in \mathbb{R}^{2}_{+}\).
Proof
Define
where \(\theta ,p\in (0,1)\), and M is a sufficiently large constant satisfying the following condition:
where
It shows that
where \(D=(\varepsilon ,\frac{1}{\varepsilon })\times (\varepsilon , \frac{1}{\varepsilon })\) and \(V^{\ast }(w,z)\) is a continuous function. Therefore, \(V^{ \ast }(w,z)\) has a minimum point \((w_{0},z_{0})\) in the interior of \(\mathbb{R}^{2}_{+}\). Thus,we can define a nonnegative \(C^{2}\)-function \(V:\mathbb{R}^{2}_{+}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_{+} \)
We can obtain the following equation by Itô’s formula:
Therefore,
where \(c_{1}\) and \(c_{2}\) are such that
The function \(\frac{Dw_{0}\beta }{(D+\sigma _{11}^{2}+\frac{2\sigma _{12}Dw_{0}}{\sigma _{11}})(D+rc^{u}_{o}+\frac{1}{2}\sigma _{21}^{2})}>1\) is continuous. Choose \(\varepsilon >0\) sufficiently small such that
We can also have
Therefore,
Let
where \(f(x)=Dw_{0}w^{p-1}-Dx^{p}-\frac{1-p}{2}\sigma _{12}^{2}x^{p+2}\) and \(g(z)=-Dx^{p}-rc^{l}_{o}z^{p} -\frac{1-p}{2}\sigma ^{2}_{22}[\prod_{0< \tau _{n+l}<t}(1-h_{n+l})z]^{p+2}\). Then we can get
Therefore, there exists sufficiently small \(\varepsilon >0\) such that
where \(\mathbb{D}=(\varepsilon ,\frac{1}{\varepsilon })\times (\varepsilon , \frac{1}{\varepsilon })\).
On the other hand, the diffusion matrix of system (3.10) is given by
where \(\xi =(\xi _{1}, \xi _{2})\in \mathbb{D}^{2}_{+}\), \(G=\min_{(w,z)\in D_{e}}\{(\sigma _{11}w+\sigma _{12}w^{2})\xi ^{2}_{1}+( \sigma _{21}z+\sigma _{22}\prod_{0<\tau _{n+l}<t}(1- h_{n+l})z^{2}) \xi ^{2}_{2}\}\), and \(D_{e}=[\frac{1}{e},e]\times [\frac{1}{e},e]\).
From Theorem 4.7 in reference [9], it can be known that system (3.11) is ergodic and has a unique stationary distribution, and the distribution of the process converges weakly to the measure with density. □
Remark 4.5
From Lemma 3.3 and Theorem 4.4, we can easily know that if \(Dx_{0}\beta >(D+\sigma _{11}^{2}+ \frac{2\sigma _{12}Dx_{0}}{\sigma _{11}})(D+rc^{u}_{o}+\frac{1}{2} \sigma _{21}^{2})\) holds, system (2.1) admits a unique stationary distribution and it has ergodic property for initial \((x(0),y(0))\in \mathbb{R}^{2}_{+}\).
5 Numerical simulations
If it is assumed that \(x(0)=0.8\), \(y(0)=0.3\), \(c_{o}(0)=0.9\), \(c_{e}(0)=0.9\), \(D=1\), \(\beta =0.1\), \(k=0.1 A=0.05\), \(B=0.002\), \(r=0.1\), \(f=0.1\), \(g=0.5\), \(m=0.5\), \(h=0.1\), \(h_{1}=0.02\), \(h_{2}=0.2\), \(\sigma _{11}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{12}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{21}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{22}=0.01\), \(l=0.25\), \(\tau =4\), when \(\mu =0.1\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive (it can be seen in (a) of Fig. 1), when \(\mu =0.9\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct(it can be seen in (b) of Fig. 1). From Theorem 4.1, Remark 4.5, and the computer simulations in Fig. 1, we conjecture that there must exist a threshold \(\mu ^{\ast }\), if \(\mu >\mu ^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct, if \(\mu <\mu ^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive. If it is assumed that \(x(0)=0.8\), \(y(0)=0.3\), \(c_{o}(0)=0.9\), \(c_{e}(0)=0.9\), \(D=1\), \(\beta =0.1\), \(k=0.1\), \(A=0.05\), \(B=0.002\), \(r=0.1\), \(f=0.1\), \(g=0.5\), \(m=0.5\), \(h=0.1\), \(\mu =0.1\), \(h_{2}=0.2\), \(\sigma _{11}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{12}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{21}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{22}=0.01\), \(l=0.25\), \(\tau =4\), when \(h_{1}=0.01\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive (it can be seen in (c) of Fig. 2), when \(h_{1}=0.1\) the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct(it can be seen in (d) of Fig. 2). From Theorem 4.1, Remark 4.5, and the computer simulations in Fig. 2, we conjecture that there must exist a threshold \(h_{2}^{\ast }\), if \(h_{2}< h_{2}^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct, if \(h_{2}>h_{2}^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive. If it is assumed that \(x(0)=0.8\), \(y(0)=0.3\), \(c_{o}(0)=0.9\), \(c_{e}(0)=0.9\), \(D=1\), \(\beta =0.1\), \(k=0.1\), \(A=0.05\), \(B=0.002\), \(r=0.1\), \(f=0.1\), \(G=0.5\), \(M=0.5\), \(h=0.1\), \(\mu =0.1\), \(h_{1}=0.07\), \(\sigma _{11}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{12}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{21}=0.01\), \(\sigma _{22}=0.01\), \(l=0.25\), \(\tau =4\), when \(h_{2}=0.9\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive (it can be seen in (e) of Fig. 3), when \(h_{2}=0.1\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct (it can be seen in (f) of Fig. 3). From Theorem 4.1, Remark 4.5, and the computer simulations in Fig. 3, we conjecture that there must exist a threshold \(h_{1}^{\ast }\), if \(h_{1}< h_{1}^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct, if \(h_{1}>h_{1}^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive. If it is assumed that \(x(0)=0.8\), \(y(0)=0.3\), \(c_{o}(0)=0.9\), \(c_{e}(0)=0.9\), \(D=1\), \(\beta =0.1\), \(k=0.1\), \(A=0.05\), \(B=0.002\), \(r=0.1\), \(f=0.1\), \(g=0.5\), \(m=0.5\), \(h=0.1\), \(\mu =0.1\), \(h_{1}=0.02\), \(h_{2}=0.1\), \(\sigma _{12}=0.1\), \(\sigma _{21}=0.05\), \(\sigma _{22}=0.05\), \(l=0.25\), \(\tau =4\), and when \(\sigma _{11}=0.3\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive (it can be seen in (g) of Fig. 4), when \(\sigma _{11}=0.6\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct(it can be seen in (h) of Fig. 4). From Theorem 4.1, Remark 4.5, and the computer simulations in Fig. 4, we conjecture that there must exist a threshold \(\sigma _{11}^{\ast }\), if \(\sigma _{11}<\sigma _{11}^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will be extinct, if \(\sigma _{11}>\sigma _{11}^{\ast }\), the microorganism \(y(t)\) will survive.
6 Discussion
In this work, we consider a stochastic eutrophication-chemostat model with impulsive dredging and pulse inputting on environmental toxicant. The sufficient condition for the extinction of microorganisms is obtained. The sufficient condition for the investigated system with unique ergodic stationary distribution is also obtained by the Lyapunov functions method. The results of mathematical analysis and numerical analysis show that the stochastic noise, impulsive diffusion, and pulse input on environmental toxicant play important roles in the extinction and survival of the microorganisms. These results indicate the effective and reliable controlling strategy for water resource management with eutrophication.
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This paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11761019, 11361014), the Science Technology Foundation of Guizhou Education Department (20175736-001, 2008038), the Science Technology Foundation of Guizhou (2010J2130),the Project of High Level Creative Talents in Guizhou Province (No. 20164035), and the Joint Project of Department of Commerce and Guizhou University of Finance and Economics (No. 2016SWBZD18).
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Jiao, J., Li, Q. Dynamics of a stochastic eutrophication-chemostat model with impulsive dredging and pulse inputting on environmental toxicant. Adv Differ Equ 2020, 447 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13662-020-02905-5
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