This paper is concerned with optimal harvesting control of a first order partial differential equation system representing a nonlinear n-dimensional competitive population model with age-structure. By the Ekeland's v...This paper is concerned with optimal harvesting control of a first order partial differential equation system representing a nonlinear n-dimensional competitive population model with age-structure. By the Ekeland's variational principle, the existence and unique char- acterization of the optimal control strategy are established. The optimality conditions for the control problem are obtained by the concept of the normal cone.展开更多
By the techniques of comparison argument and Lyapunov-like functionals, some criteria about persistence and extinction of the species are obtained. And then, with the help of constructing Lyapunov functionals and some...By the techniques of comparison argument and Lyapunov-like functionals, some criteria about persistence and extinction of the species are obtained. And then, with the help of constructing Lyapunov functionals and some new analysis method, sufficient conditions, provided with the form of average value of a function, to guarantee the stability of the system are derived. Finally, some examples together with their numerical simulations show the feasibility of these main results. Our conclusions are different from many existing forms for nonlinear competitive systems.展开更多
文摘This paper is concerned with optimal harvesting control of a first order partial differential equation system representing a nonlinear n-dimensional competitive population model with age-structure. By the Ekeland's variational principle, the existence and unique char- acterization of the optimal control strategy are established. The optimality conditions for the control problem are obtained by the concept of the normal cone.
文摘By the techniques of comparison argument and Lyapunov-like functionals, some criteria about persistence and extinction of the species are obtained. And then, with the help of constructing Lyapunov functionals and some new analysis method, sufficient conditions, provided with the form of average value of a function, to guarantee the stability of the system are derived. Finally, some examples together with their numerical simulations show the feasibility of these main results. Our conclusions are different from many existing forms for nonlinear competitive systems.