Bacterial diffusion in disordered media, by forgetting the media
Henry H. Mattingly
Henry H. Mattingly
Nov 2023
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We study bacterial diffusion in disordered porous media. Interactions with obstacles, at unknown locations, make this problem challenging. We approach it by abstracting the environment to cell states with memoryless transitions. With this, we derive an effective diffusivity that agrees well with simulations in explicit geometries. The diffusivity is non-monotonic, and we solve the optimal run length. We also find a rescaling that causes all of the theory and simulations to collapse. Our results indicate that a small set of microscopic features captures bacterial diffusion in disordered media.
