@article{open845, volume = {71}, number = {2}, author = {P R Patnaik}, note = {Copyright of this article belongs to Kluwer Academic Publishers/Springer Science}, title = {Fractal measures of fluid mixing and filtering of inflow noise in a biological reactor.}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers }, year = {2000}, journal = {Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters}, pages = {301--306}, keywords = {Bioreactor, incomplete mixing, inflow noise, fractal dimension }, url = {http://crdd.osdd.net/open/845/}, abstract = {For {\ss}-galactosidase production by a recombinant strain of Escherichia coli, fractal dimensions have been computed for two intra-cellular and two extra-cellular variables under three kinds of Guassian noise. The fractal dimensions changed significantly with both fluid mixing and noise, indicating their usefulness as discriminating indexes to optimize mixing intensity and filtering of inflow noise. } }