Hydrodynamics of bacterial motion

Zoltán Csahók and András Czirók

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1997, vol. 243, issue 3, 304-318

Abstract: In this paper we present a hydrodynamic approach to describe the motion of migrating bacteria as a special class of self-propelled systems. Analytical and numerical calculations has been performed to study the behavior of our model in the turbulent-like regime and to show that a phase transition occurs as a function of noise strength. Our results can explain previous experimental observations as well as results of numerical simulations.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(97)00283-5

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