Relationship between concentration and hydrodynamic boundary layers over biofilms

Environmental Technology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 375-385

  Bishop, P L ^a   Gibbs, J T ^a   Cunningham, B E ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Concentration boundary layer; Hydraulic boundary layer; Microelectrodes; Particle image velocimetry

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FLOW VELOCITY; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROELECTRODES; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; CONCENTRATION BOUNDARY LAYER; CRITICAL VARIABLES; HYDRAULIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; HYDRODYNAMIC BOUNDARY LAYERS; OXYGEN MICROELECTRODES; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; SCHMIDT NUMBERS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BOUNDARY LAYER; DIFFUSION; FLOW RATE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROELECTRODE;

EID: 0030978947     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593331808616551     Document Type: Article

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