A nonlinear master equation for a degenerate diffusion model of biofilm growth

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5544 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 735-744

  Khassehkhan, Hassan ^a   Hillen, Thomas ^b   Eberl, Hermann J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM FORMATION; BIOFILM GROWTH; BIOMASS DENSITY; CELLULAR AUTOMATA MODELS; DEGENERATE DIFFUSIONS; DEGENERATE PARABOLIC EQUATION; DENSITY-DEPENDENT; DIFFUSION-REACTION MODEL; GRID REFINEMENT; LOCAL BIOMASS; MASTER EQUATIONS; SPACE MODELS; TARGET SITES; TRANSITION RULE;

BIOFILMS; BIOFILTERS; CELLULAR AUTOMATA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS;

EID: 68849111851     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01970-8_73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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