Wall effects for the free rise of solid spheres in moderately viscous liquids

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 974-978

  Dewsbury, Kevin H ^a   Tzounakos, Aristotelis ^a   Karamanev, Dimitre G ^a   Margaritis, Argyrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Free rise; Hydrodynamics; Non Newtonian fluids; Particle; Wall effects

Indexed keywords

NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS; VISCOUS FLOW; WALL FLOW;

WALL EFFECTS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID; SPHERE; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

ARTICLE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SOLID; VELOCITY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0037665103     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450800521     Document Type: Article

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