abstract: Presented is a study on the chemotaxis reaction process and its relation with flow topology. The effect of coherent structures in turbulent flows is characterized by studying nutrient uptake and the advantage that is received from motile bacteria over other non-motile bacteria. Variability is found to be dependent on the initial location of scalar impurity and can be tied to Lagrangian coherent structures through recent advances in the identification of finite-time transport barriers. Advantage is relatively small for initial nutrient found within high stretching regions of the flow, and nutrient within elliptic structures provide the greatest advantage for motile species. How the flow field and the relevant flow topology lead to such a relation is analyzed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Mathematics 2015
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:34877 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Contributors | Jones, Kimberly (Author), Tang, Wenbo (Advisor), Kang, Yun (Committee member), Jones, Donald (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 20 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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