Extinction of a bacterial colony under forced convection in pie geometry

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 1 I, 2001, Pages 011906-011901

  Shnerb, Nadav M ^a  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PIE GEOMETRY; QUANTUM PARTICLES;

BACTERIA;

ALGORITHM; BACTERIA; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ALGORITHMS; BACTERIA; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 17744372277     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.011906     Document Type: Article

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