RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Biofilms as active sheets and filaments
A1 Carpio Rodríguez, Ana María
A1 Cebrián, Elena
A1 González Albaladejo, Rafael
AB Bacterial biofilms often spread forming sheets on surfaces and filaments in fluids. Such sheets and filaments undergo instabilities, like wrinkles and loops, frequently observed in elastic plates and threads. By modeling biofilms as active plates or threads, we are able to reproduce experimentally observed patterns. Biofilm deformation and spread can be described by nonlinear elastic or poroelastic  models involving nonlocal terms representing cell activity and the interaction with the environment. Such terms are obtained averaging information provided by  agent based models of bacterial behavior. We consider cellular automata and immersed boundary approaches to individual cell dynamics. Numerical simulations show that the models capture observed qualitative features such as accelerated spread and wrinkle formation in sheets or loops in filaments.
YR 2022
FD 2022-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/2583
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/2583
LA spa
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 abr 2025