Birth-death process differential equation

From the Kolmogorov equations (4.41) and (4.42), one obtains the difference-differential equations for the birth-death process. The backward equation is given by... 

In the following, we derive the Kolmogorov differential equation on the basis of a simple model and report its various versions. In principle, this equation gives the rate at which a certain state is occupied by the system at a certain time. This equation is of a fundamental importance to obtain models discrete in space and continuous in time. The models, later discussed, are the Poisson Process, the Pure Birth Process, the Polya Process, the Simple Death Process and the Birth-and-Death Process. In section 2.1-3 this equation, i.e. Eq.2-30, has been derived for Markov chains discrete in space and time. 

Chapter 3 is an overview of chemical and biological nonlinear dynamics. The kinetics of several types of reactions -first order, binary, catalytic, oscillatory, etc - and of ecological interactions -predation, competition, birth and death, etc - is described, nearly always within the framework of differential equations. The aim of this Chapter is to show that, despite the great variety of mechanisms and processes occurring, a few mathematical structures appear recurrently, and archetypical simplified models can be analyzed to understand whole classes of chemical or biological phenomena. The presence of very different timescales and the associated methodology of adiabatic elimination is instrumental in recognizing that. 

Solution of the particle concentration profile in the particle concentration boundary layer from in the feed suspension liquid to the concentration on top of the cake (and equal to the concentration in the cake) requires consideration of the particle transport equation in the boundary layer. We will proceed as follows. We will first identify the basic governing differentied equations and appropriate boundary conditions (Davis and Sherwood, 1990) and then identify the required equations for an integral model and list the desired solutions from Romero and Davis (1988). However, we will first simplify the population balance equation (6.2.51c) for particles under conditions of steady state 8n rp)/dt = O), no birth and death processes (B = 0 = De), no particle growth (lf = 0) and no particle velocity due to external forces Up = 0), namely... 

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