An extension of generalized Taylor dispersion in unbounded homogeneous shear flows to run-and-tumble chemotactic bacteria

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1552-1563

  Bearon, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHEAR FLOW; TENSORS;

MACROSCOPIC DISPERSION;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BACTERIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; SHEAR FLOW; TAYLOR DISPERSION; TRAJECTORY PREDICTION;

EID: 0038507460     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1569482     Document Type: Article

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