Chemical and Biological Remediation: Cellular Automata Studies of Bacteria Under Stress

摘要

An understanding of the way in which bacteria survive and grow is important in many fields, from medical diagnostics to bioremediation. We illustrate in this paper how the development of bacterial colonies can be modeled using Cellular Automata. With suitable selection of rules, and the inclusion of diffusion effects, good agreement between predicted and experimental growth patterns is obtained.