Nutrient exposure of chemotactic organisms in small-scale turbulent flows

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Muñoz García, Javier ^a   Neufeld, Zoltán ^a   Torney, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTED CHEMICALS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; CHEMOATTRACTANTS; CHEMOTACTIC ACTIVITY; CONTINUUM MODEL; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; EFFECTIVE DIFFUSIVITIES; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TURBULENT FLUIDS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; NUTRIENTS;

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 78149423410     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/10/103043     Document Type: Article

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