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Hydrodynamics of bacterial motion

Zoltan Csahok, Andras Czirok

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/9811247

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.

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