Mechanically-driven spreading of bacterial populations
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Mechanically-driven spreading of bacterial populations
The effect of mechanical interaction between cells on the spreading of bacterial population was investigated in one-dimensional space. A nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation has been formulated as a model for this dynamics. In this model, the bacterial cells are treated as the rod-like particles that interact, when contacting each other, through the hard-core repulsion. The repulsion introduce...
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عنوان ژورنال: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1007-5704
DOI: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2015.10.026