 Speed of a nutrient-consuming chemotactic band

For a nutrient-consuming chemotactic travelling band in a tube of cross-sectional area $a$, let $N=a{\int }_{\mathbb{R}}B(z)dz$. Integrating $v{C}^{\prime }=kB$ between depleted nutrient behind and $C_{\infty }$ ahead gives $v{C}_{\infty }=kN/a$, hence $v=Nk/(a{C}_{\infty })$. This is a nutrient budget: advancing by a unit length supplies $a{C}_{\infty }$ nutrient, while the bacteria consume at total rate $kN$. Diffusion and chemotactic sensitivity affect the band shape and admissibility, but not this speed at fixed $N,k,a,C_{\infty }$.