A mesoscale model for hydrodynamics in biofilms that takes microscopic flow effects into account

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 167-172

  Nguyen, V Th ^a,c   Morgenroth, E ^b   Eberl, H J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Computational fluid dynamics; Extracellular polymeric substances; Hydrodynamics; Mathematical model; Porous medium

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POROUS MATERIALS;

EXTRACELLULAR POLYMERIC SUBSTANCES; MATHEMATICAL MESOSCALE MODEL; MICROSCOPIC FLOW EFFECTS;

BIOFILMS;

POLYMER;

BIOFILM; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW KINETICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POROSITY;

EID: 28244488515     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2005.0197     Document Type: Article

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