[HTML][HTML] Hydrodynamics and surface properties influence biofilm proliferation

M Krsmanovic, D Biswas, H Ali, A Kumar… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
A biofilm is an interface-associated colloidal dispersion of bacterial cells and excreted
polymers in which microorganisms find protection from their environment. Successful …

Interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm processes: review of microfluidic methods

A Karimi, D Karig, A Kumar, AM Ardekani - Lab on a Chip, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Bacteria in natural and artificial environments often reside in self-organized, integrated
communities known as biofilms. Biofilms are highly structured entities consisting of bacterial …

Designing biomimetic antifouling surfaces

M Salta, JA Wharton, P Stoodley… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Marine biofouling is the accumulation of biological material on underwater surfaces, which
has plagued both commercial and naval fleets. Biomimetic approaches may well provide …

Biophysics of biofilm infection

PS Stewart - Pathogens and disease, 2014 - academic.oup.com
This article examines a likely basis of the tenacity of biofilm infections that has received
relatively little attention: the resistance of biofilms to mechanical clearance. One way that a …

Mini-review: convection around biofilms

PS Stewart - Biofouling, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Water that flows around a biofilm influences the transport of solutes into and out of the
biofilm and applies forces to the biofilm that can cause it to deform and detach. Engineering …

Three-dimensional modeling of biofouling and fluid dynamics in feed spacer channels of membrane devices

C Picioreanu, JS Vrouwenvelder… - Journal of Membrane …, 2009 - Elsevier
This study presents a new three-dimensional (3-d) computational model that couples fluid
dynamics, solutes transport and biofouling by biofilm formation in NF and RO membrane …

Modeling of biofilm systems: a review

H Horn, S Lackner - Productive biofilms, 2014 - Springer
<? xm-replace_text {Heading}?> Abstract The modeling of biochemical processes in biofilms
is more complex compared to those in suspended biomass due to the existence of substrate …

Investigation of the mesoscale structure and volumetric features of biofilms using optical coherence tomography

M Wagner, D Taherzadeh, C Haisch… - Biotechnology and …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was successfully applied to visualize the mesoscale
structure of three different heterotrophic biofilms. For this purpose, biofilm volumes of 4× 4× …

[HTML][HTML] Determination of mechanical properties of biofilms by modelling the deformation measured using optical coherence tomography

C Picioreanu, F Blauert, H Horn, M Wagner - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
The advantage of using non-invasive imaging such as optical coherence tomography (OCT)
to asses material properties from deformed biofilm geometries can be compromised by the …

[HTML][HTML] An immersed boundary method based on the lattice Boltzmann approach in three dimensions, with application

L Zhu, G He, S Wang, L Miller, X Zhang, Q You… - … & Mathematics with …, 2011 - Elsevier
The immersed boundary (IB) method originated by Peskin has been popular in modeling
and simulating problems involving the interaction of a flexible structure and a viscous …