Interaction of sedimenting spheres with multiple surface roughness scales

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 492, Issue , 2003, Pages 101-129

  Zhao, Yu ^a   Davis, Robert H ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; SEDIMENTS; SEPARATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOSITY;

SPHERICAL PARTICLES;

FLUID MECHANICS;

CONTACT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICLE SEPARATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VISCOUS FLUID;

EID: 0142153790     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112003005652     Document Type: Article

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