Bacterial wall attachment in a flow reactor

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1728-1771

  Jones, Don ^a   Kojouharov, Hristo V ^a   Le, Dung ^a   Smith, Hal ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial wall growth; Elliptic and parabolic boundary value problem; Gut; Nonlinear boundary conditions; Plug flow

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GROWTH KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIPE FLOW; THEOREM PROVING;

BACTERIAL WALL GROWTH; PLUG FLOW;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS;

EID: 0036588731     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139901390416     Document Type: Article

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