Buoyant plumes from solute gradients generated by non-motile Escherichia coli

Physical Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Benoit, M R ^a,c   Brown, R B ^a,d   Todd, P ^a,e   Nelson, E S ^b   Klaus, D M ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^e Space Hardware Optimization Technologies ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METABOLISM; MICROFLUIDICS; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 58149299483     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/5/4/046007     Document Type: Article

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