This repository contains a COMSOL Multiphysics simulation file for bacterial swarming patterns on solid surfaces.
The COMSOL file herein have been developed to produce numerical approximations of the model described in the paper.
A generalized model for predicting different morphologies of bacterial swarming on a porous solid surface Uttam Kumar, Subramaniam Pushpavanam Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036, India
The folder swarming provides a COMSOL file that solves the two-dimensional model described in the paper.
Please ensure you cite our paper along with Kotian et al., PRE 2018, if you use this code.
[1] A generalized model for predicting different morphologies of bacterial swarming on a porous solid surface, Uttam Kumar, Subramaniam Pushpavanam,
[2] Active modulation of surfactant-driven flow instabilities by swarming bacteria, Kotian et al., PRE 2018