Gliding motion of bacteria on power-law slime

Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-347

  Wang, Yongqi ^a   Hayat, Tasawar ^b   Siddiqui, Abdul Majeed ^c  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Non Newtonian fluid; Power law fluid; Shear thickening; Shear thinning

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

POWER-LAW FLUIDS; SHEAR-THICKENING; SURFACE MODELS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 12444285804     PISSN: 01704214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mma.571     Document Type: Article

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