Chaotic dynamics and oxygen transport in thin films of aerotactic bacteria

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Ezhilan, Barath ^a   Pahlavan, Amir Alizadeh ^a,b   Saintillan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; DYNAMICS; LIQUID FILMS; OXYGEN;

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; CORRELATED MOTIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; KINETIC MODELING; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; STEADY STATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84867130158     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4752764     Document Type: Letter

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