title: Population balance modeling: current status and future prospects.
abstract: Population balance modeling is undergoing phenomenal growth in its applications, and this growth is accompanied by multifarious reviews. This review aims to fortify the model's fundamental base, as well as point to a variety of new applications, including modeling of crystal morphology, cell growth and differentiation, gene regulatory processes, and transfer of drug resistance. This is accomplished by presenting the many faces of population balance equations that arise in the foregoing applications.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907; email: ramkrish@ecn.purdue.edu.
authors.forename: Doraiswami
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ramkrishna
authors.forename: Meenesh R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena / Q000502:physiology*; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D057285:Precision Medicine / Q000379:methods; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods
keywords: biofilm growth; crystal morphology; gene regulatory processes; personalized medicine; stem cell differentiation; stochastic internal coordinates