Departament de Física Aplicada
universitat politècnica de catalunya

Nonlinear Physics and Far from Equilibrium Systems

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Bacterial Colonies Growth

 A reaction-diffusion model is used to reproduce the different morphologies exhibed by Bacillus Subtilis bacterial colonies.

Some movies are available here in quick time format:

 
A: Diffusion Limited Aggregation like pattern
 

B: Eden-like pattern

C: Concentrinc Ring Pattern

D: Homogeneous Disk

E: Dense Branching Morphology

 

More details about the model:

    Modelling of spatio-temporal patterns in bacterial colonies, PRE 59, 7036 (1999): PS file, PDF file



 
 
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