Small particles in homogeneous turbulence: Settling velocity enhancement by two-way coupling

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bosse, Thorsten ^a   Kleiser, Leonhard ^a   Meiburg, Eckart ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow simulation; Gravity waves; Suspensions; Turbulence; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TWO PHASE FLOW; VELOCITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

FLOW SIMULATION; LAGRANGIAN POINT-PARTICLE MODEL; SETTLING VELOCITY;

TURBULENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TURBULENCE; TWO PHASE FLOW; VELOCITY; VOLUME FRACTION;

EID: 33644607273     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2166456     Document Type: Article

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