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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mathematical Modeling and Scanning Electron Microscopic Study of Biofilm on Adsorptive Media (Orthogonal Collocation Method)
Abstract
dc:descriptionA mathematical model, based on fundamental mechanisms, including film transfer, Monod kinetics, biofilm growth, and shear loss, was derived to describe performance of biofilm attached to an adsorbing surface. The model-BFAC model-has three features: substrate diffuses in a growing biofilm (moving boundary problem); the reaction term is nonlinear; and substrate diffuses in a layered-media. An advanced numerical technique, the Global Orthogonal Collocation Method, was employed to solve the model.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Environmental Engineering
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Chang, Huai Ted
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8600142
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69952