The applicability of the pseudo-fluid model to the settling velocity of a foreign particle in a suspension

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 371-375

  Di Felice, Renzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID DYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REYNOLDS NUMBER;

PSEUDOFLUID MODEL; SETTLING VELOCITY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

MODEL; SETTLING; SUSPENSION; VELOCITY;

EID: 0031964122     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(97)00278-9     Document Type: Article

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