Multiscale modeling of pseudomonas aeruginosa swarming

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 939-954

  Du, Huijing ^a   Xu, Zhiliang ^a   Shrout, Joshua D ^a,b   Alber, Mark ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fingering pattern; multiscale model; Swarming motility

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS; CELL-BASED; FINGERING PATTERNS; FRACTAL TYPE; LIQUID EXTRACTION; LIQUID THIN FILM; MACROSCOPIC LEVELS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; MULTISCALE MODELS; P.AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUORUM-SENSING; RHAMNOLIPIDS; SELF-ORGANIZED; STOCHASTIC DISCRETE MODEL; SWARMING MOTILITY; WILD TYPES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; LIQUIDS; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; THIN FILMS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79956059137     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202511005428     Document Type: Article

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