Dataset for: Hydrodynamic attraction of bacteria to gas and liquid interfaces

The motion of bacteria near gas, fluid, and solid interfaces is investigated in the Complex Flow Lab of the Mechanical Engineering department of Purdue University. Experimental data were captured using an inverted microscope and processed to find the individual trajectories of Escherichia coli cells within the imaging domain. Numerical simulations were conducted using the super-computing clusters at Purdue. Using MATLAB software, the numerical results investigated the distribution of bacteria near gas, liquid, and solid surfaces. Both experimental and simulated data were collected in 2018 and 2019 to study the attraction of motile bacteria to liquid and gas interfaces. The dataset contains the data needed to re-create figures in the accompanying manuscript, as well as trajectories and distributions of E. coli 437. This dataset supports the publication: Ahmadzadegan, A., Wang, S., Vlachos, P. P., & Ardekani, A. M. (2019). Hydrodynamic attraction of bacteria to gas and liquid interfaces. Physical Review E, 100(6). doi:10.1103/physreve.100.062605