Some further observations on the hindered settling velocity of spheres in the inertial flow regime

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 51, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 4531-4532

  Chhabra, R P ^a,d   Uhlherr, P H T ^b   Richardson, J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; INTERPOLATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TUBES (COMPONENTS); VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND TUNNELS;

INERTIAL FLOW; NEWTON EQUATION; SETTLING VELOCITY; TERMINAL VELOCITY; WALL CORRECTION FACTOR;

SPHERES;

EID: 0030268444     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(96)00285-0     Document Type: Article

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