Characterizing light limited growth and orientation of elongate colonial diatoms under laminar and turbulent Couette flow regimes

Ranjoy Barua1,2, Malcolm McFarland2, James Michael Sullivan2, Jan Rines3, Melissa Omand3 and Aditya R Nayak1,2, (1)Florida Atlantic University, Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, Boca Raton, FL, United States, (2)Florida Atlantic University, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Fort Pierce, FL, United States, (3)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States