id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt x059c53713m Juan Pablo Pavissich Bartolozzi Effects of Biofilm Morphological and Mechanical Heterogeneity on Treatment Systems: An Assessment via Experiments and Modeling 2014 .txt text/plain 349 17 20 In this study, three novel topics were addressed regarding biofilm heterogeneity: effects of morphological heterogeneity on counter-diffusional biofilms, the development of a biofilm model capable of predicting deformation and detachment, and the determination of spatial distribution of biofilm mechanical properties. A novel biofilm model was developed using an energetic variational approach and phase-field method to simulate biofilm mechanical response to fluid flow. cache/x059c53713m.txt txt/x059c53713m.txt