3-D patterns in bacterial biofilms

DOI10.1090/conm/586/11612zbMath1280.35161MaRDI QIDQ2869157

Chen Chen, Qi Wang

Publication date: 3 January 2014

Published in: Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/586/11612

zbMATH Keywords

polymer; pattern formation; Cahn-Hilliard equation; bacterial biofilms; phase transport equation; chemical (nutrient) transport equation; Flory-Huggins mixing free energy; multiphase hydrodynamic model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q35: PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics

82D60: Statistical mechanics of polymers

76A20: Thin fluid films

35Q92: PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences

92C15: Developmental biology, pattern formation

76T30: Three or more component flows

76Z99: Biological fluid mechanics

35K25: Higher-order parabolic equations

35B36: Pattern formations in context of PDEs