Particle-based multidimensional multispecies biofilm model

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3024-3040

  Picioreanu, Cristian ^a   Kreft, Jan Ulrich ^b   Van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; DIFFUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CHEMICAL SPECIES; MASS BALANCE; MICROBIAL GROWTH;

MICROBIOLOGY;

AMMONIA; NITRITE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ADVECTION; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DIFFUSION; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRITES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PARTICLE SIZE; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 2442656951     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.5.3024-3040.2004     Document Type: Article

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