Effect of diffusive and convective substrate transport on biofilm structure formation: A two-dimensional modeling study

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 504-515

  Picioreanu, Cristian ^a,b   Van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^a   Heijnen, Joseph J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Convection; Diffusion; Flow; Growth; Irregular geometry; Lattice Boltzmann; Mathematical model; R oughness; Reaction; Two dimensional

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DIFFUSION; FILM GROWTH; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

FLOW CONVECTION; IRREGULAR GEOMETRY; LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD;

BIOFILMS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DIFFUSION; GROWTH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT; POROSITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0034609601     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0290(20000905)69:5<504::AID-BIT5>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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