Hydrodynamics of bacterial motion
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Hydrodynamics of bacterial motion
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 a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0378-4371
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4371(97)00283-5