Mathematical Modeling of Biofilm Development

DOI10.1016/J.NONRWA.2018.01.005MaRDI QIDQ6284272arXivFDO

Authors Maria Gokieli, Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Marek Niezgódka

Publication date 13 March 2017

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NONRWA.2018.01.005

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Inequalities applied to PDEs involving derivatives, differential and integral operators, or integrals (35A23) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Reaction-diffusion equations (35K57) Degenerate parabolic equations (35K65) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids (76D05) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Biopropulsion in water and in air (76Z10) Plant biology (92C80)

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Abstract: We perform mathematical anaysis of the biofilm development process. A model describing biomass growth is proposed: It arises from coupling three parabolic nonlinear equations: a biomass equation with degenerate and singular diffusion, a nutrient tranport equation with a biomass-density dependent diffusion, and an equation of the Navier-Stokes type, describing the fluid flow in which the biofilm develops. This flow is subject to a biomass--density dependent obstacle. The model is treated as a system of three inclusions, or variational inequalities; the third one causes major difficulties for the system's solvability. Our approach is based on the recent development of the theory on Navier-Stokes variational inequalities.

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