Bio-thermal convection caused by combined effects of swimming of oxytactic bacteria and inclined temperature gradient in a shallow fluid layer

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-173

  Avramenko, A A ^a   Kuznetsov, A V ^b  

^a Department of Modeling of Heat Transfer Processes in Energy and Heat Engineering Facilities   (Ukraine)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Fluids; Microbiology; Temperature distribution; Thermal stability

Indexed keywords

BASIC FLOW; BIOCONVECTION; COLLOCATION METHOD; COMBINED EFFECT; CONVECTION; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FLUID LAYER; HORIZONTAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; INCLINED TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; NUMERICAL PROBLEMS; OXYTACTIC BACTERIA; OXYTACTIC MICROORGANISMS; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMAL CONVECTIONS; THERMAL STABILITY;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FLUIDS; HEAT CONVECTION; MICROORGANISMS; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; RESEARCH; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; THERMAL GRADIENTS; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951248391     PISSN: 09615539     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09615531011016939     Document Type: Article

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