Nutrient transport and acquisition by diatom chains in a moving fluid

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 638, Issue , 2009, Pages 401-421

  Musielak, Magdalena M ^a   Karp Boss, Lee ^b   Jumars, Peter A ^b   Fauci, Lisa J ^c  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SHEAR FLOW; SILICA; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

BACKGROUND CONCENTRATION; CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUTRIENT ACQUISITION; NUTRIENT TRANSPORT; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED;

NUTRIENTS;

COUETTE FLOW; DIATOM; FLUID FLOW; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; STEADY FLOW; TURBULENCE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 76349085185     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009991108     Document Type: Article

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