HR: 0800h
AN: NG31A-0853    [Abstracts]
TI: Modeling of Microbial Motion in a Fractal Porous Media
AU: Park, M
EM: mpark@math.purdue.edu
AF: Purdue University, Department of Mathematics 150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 United States
AU: * Axtell, N
EM: axtell@purdue.edu
AF: Purdue University, Department of Mathematics 150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 United States
AU: Cushman, J
EM: jcushman@math.purdue.edu
AF: Purdue University, Department of Mathematics 150 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067 United States
AB: The evolution of genetic information between disparate species of microbes can play an important role in many environmental and medical problems. Efforts to model this phenomenon on scales ranging from the micron to the field are underway. One aspect of this work has been the development of an upscaled equation for a microbe swimming in a fractal porous media, where the fractal dimension at the various scales is computed. CLT's for heavy tailed sticky stochastic processes are employed in this process. Current results on the modeling effort will be presented.
DE: 3210 Modeling
DE: 3250 Fractals and multifractals
DE: 0400 Biogeosciences
SC: Nonlinear Geophysics [NG]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting