Mathematical Modeling of Biofilm Development

DOI10.1016/J.NONRWA.2018.01.005arXiv1703.04420MaRDI QIDQ6284272FDOQ6284272

Authors Maria Gokieli, Nobuyuki Kenmochi, Marek Niezgódka

Publication date 13 March 2017

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

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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