Numerical simulation of multi-species biofilms in porous media for different kinetics

Benito M Chen-Charpentier,Dobromir T Dimitrov,Hristo V Kojouharov

doi:10.1016/j.matcom.2007.03.002

Numerical simulation of multi-species biofilms in porous media for different kinetics

Benito M Chen-Charpentier, Dobromir T Dimitrov + Show 1 more

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2007.03.002

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Journal: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	Publication Date: Mar 13, 2007
Citations: 29

Affiliation: University of Wyoming, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, The University of Texas at Arlington

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There are bacteria that can form strong biofilms in porous media. These biofilms can be used as biobarriers to restrict the flow of pollutants. For certain contaminants, a second species of bacteria that can actually react with the contaminants can be added to the biobarrier to actually degrade the pollutants. We propose some mathematical models for the formation of these reacting biobarriers under different hypotheses, and numerically solve the resulting equations for the flow, transport and reactions. Qualitative comparisons with some experimental results are also given.

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