Numerical simulation of biofilm formation in a microchannel
Fluid Dynamics
2020-07-14 v2
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.
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@article{arxiv.1804.07096,
title = {Numerical simulation of biofilm formation in a microchannel},
author = {David Landa-Marbán and Iuliu S. Pop and Kundan Kumar and Florin A. Radu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07096},
year = {2020}
}