title: Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of the Photosynthesis in a Plant Leaf Cell
creator: Yonthanthum, Pinyo
subject: ddc-500
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics
subject: ddc-510
subject: 510 Mathematics
description: Photosynthesis is a very important process in plants which occurs in chloro-  plasts. Plants use photon energy to oxidize water molecule, release oxygen,  and convert carbon dioxide to sugar molecule. The process of photosynthe-  sis contains two main parts: light dependent reactions and light independent  reactions.    A mathematical model, which describes the diffusion-transport and related  chemical reactions in a multi-component flow in a single C3 plant leaf cell,  is constructed. A sub-domain of a leaf cell is considered containing multiple  organelles: chloroplast, mitochondria, vacuole, cytoplasm, and peroxisome.  A typical distribution of a finite number of these organelles inside a cell is  considered. The cell domain is decomposed in 5 sub-domains, separated by  fixed interfaces. The interacting chemical reactions induced by light, of the  Calvin cycle, the starch synthesis, sugar synthesis, respiration and photores-  piration are investigated. A sensitivity analysis was performed, the results  allows a reduction of the complex system. A system of partial differential  equations, which describes the diffusion-transport and also related chemical  reactions is formulated and simulated using the software Gascoigne. For the  reduced system, the resulting flow of substances is analyzed.
date: 2016
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22025/1/PinyoYonthanthumDissertation.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00022025
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-220256
identifier:   Yonthanthum, Pinyo  (2016) Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of the Photosynthesis in a Plant Leaf Cell.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/22025/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng