Numerical simulation of biofilm formation in a microchannel

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-96415-7_75zbMATH Open1425.76144arXiv1804.07096OpenAlexW2797134150MaRDI QIDQ2008758FDOQ2008758

Authors: David Landa-Marbán, I. S. Pop, K. Kumar, F. A. Radu 

Publication date: 26 November 2019

Abstract: The focus of this paper is the numerical solution of a pore-scale model for the growth of a permeable biofilm. The model includes water flux inside the biofilm, different biofilm components, and shear stress on the biofilm-water interface. To solve the resulting highly coupled system of model equations, we propose a splitting algorithm. The Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) method is used to track the biofilm-water interface. Numerical simulations are performed using physical parameters from the existing literature. Our computations show the effect of biofilm permeability on the nutrient transport and on its growth.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07096

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Ecology (92D40) Finite difference methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M20) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10) PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Fluid-solid interactions (including aero- and hydro-elasticity, porosity, etc.) (74F10) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10) Flows in porous media; filtration; seepage (76S05) Effective constitutive equations in solid mechanics (74Q15) Stress (74A10)

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