Asymptotic behavior of a reaction-diffusion system in bacteriology

This paper is concerned with the asymptotic behavior of the solution for a coupled system of reaction-diffusion equations which describes the bacteria growth and the diffusion of histidine and buffer concentrations. Under the basic boundary condition of Neumann type or mixed type the coupled system can have infinitely many steady-state solutions. The present paper gives some explicit information on the asymptotic limit of the time-dependent solution in relation to these steady states. This information exhibits some rather distinct properties of the solutions between the Neumann boundary problem and the Dirichlet or mixed boundary problem.