Transverse mixing enhancement due to bacterial random motility in porous microfluidic devices

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 8780-8787

  Singh, Rajveer ^a   Olson, Mira Stone ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FACTORS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOW DISTURBANCES; GRAIN SIZE; LARGE PORES; MICRO-FLUIDIC DEVICES; MICROENVIRONMENTS; MIXING ENHANCEMENT; PORE GEOMETRY; PORE SPACE; PORE THROAT; PORE-THROAT SIZE; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION; TRANSVERSE MIXING; UNIFORM GRAIN SIZE;

BACTERIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUIDIC DEVICES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; POROUS MATERIALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BACTERIA;

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN;

BACTERIUM; GEOMETRY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MIXING; MOTILITY; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; AVERAGE TRANSVERSE DISPERSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW RATE; MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE; MICROFLUIDICS; NONHUMAN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POROSITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80054694428     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201706w     Document Type: Article

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