Collective effects in settling of spheroids under steady-state sedimentation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Kuusela, E ^a   Lahtinen, J M ^a   Ala Nissila, T ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SPHERES; VELOCITY;

NON BROWNIAN PROLATE SPHEROID; STEADY STATE SEDIMENTATION;

HYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037424161     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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