A polymer-solvent model of biofilm growth
We provide and analyse a model for the growth of bacterial biofilms based on the concept of an extracellular polymeric substance as a polymer solution, whose viscoelastic rheology is described by the classical Flory-Huggins theory. We show that one-dimensional solutions exist, which take the form at...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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