@inproceedings{93f285e299ae4fe789b24505c0ee280a,
title = "Biofilm growth: Perspectives on two-phase mixture flow and fingerings formation",
abstract = "The motion of biofilm in aqueous environment is modeled as two-phase mixture flow which is governed by a generalized Novier-Stokes equation. Noticed that the propagation of bacteria colonies obeys the diffusion law with the similar instability mechanism in the coarsening of metallic grains during solidification, a thermodynamic framework has been derived which reveals the two competing mechanisms in biofilm growth: the absorption of nutrition from water phase that tends to maximize the contact area to environment and a loose-surface layer formation that tends to minimizes biofilm surface. Therefore an additional condition has been obtained which governs the formation of finger-shaped biofilm. 2D numerical simulation has been performed.",
author = "S. Hao and B. Moran and D. Chopp",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/1-4020-4131-4_27",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781402041303",
series = "Solid Mechanics and its Applications",
pages = "273--290",
booktitle = "IUTAM Symposium on Mechanics and Reliability of Actuating Materials",
}