Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
AN EFFECTIVE MODEL FOR BIOFILM GROWTH MADE BY CHEMOTACTICAL BACTERIA IN EVOLVING POROUS MEDIA. |
| Authors: |
SCHULZ, RAPHAEL1 raphael.schulz@math.fau.de, KNABNER, PETER1 knabner@math.fau.de |
| Source: |
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 2017, Vol. 77 Issue 5, p153-1677. 25p. |
| Subjects: |
Biofilms, Biofilms testing, Bacteria, Porous materials, Biomass |
| Abstract: |
The article concerns the growth of biofilms made by chemotactical bacteria within a saturated porous media. The increase of a biomass on the surface of the solid matrix changes the porosity and impedes the ow through the pores. By formal periodic homogenization we derive an averaged model describing the process via Darcy's law and upscaled transport equations with effective coefficients given by the evolving microstructure at the pore-scale. Based on the assumption of uniform evolve of the underlying pore geometry and slight self-diffusivity of the bacteria, solvability in a weak sense global in time or at least up to a possible clogging phenomenon is shown in the two-dimensional case. Furthermore, by assuming sufficient regularity on the data we prove the boundedness of the solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
