On the collision rate of small particles in isotropic turbulence. II. Finite inertia case

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1206-1216

  Zhou, Yong ^a   Wexler, Anthony S ^a   Wang, Lian Ping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COLLISION RATE; FINITE INERTIA; KOLMOGOROV TIME; LEADING ORDER THEORY; PARTICLE MOTION; SCALING LAW; STOCHASTIC THEORY;

FLUID DYNAMICS;

EID: 0032075687     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.869644     Document Type: Article

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22. 1. We had performed numerical integrations to test various possibilities, with the conclusion that the final result was not so sensitive to the assumptions we made here.