Critical role of gravity in filters

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 13, 2006, Pages

  Araujo A D ^a   Andrade Jr , J S ^a   Herrmann, H J ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; GRAVITATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

NEUTRALLY BUOYANT PARTICLES; PARTICLE DENSITY; STOKES NUMBER;

FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS);

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; GRAVITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICS; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; GRAVITATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 33749054653     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.138001     Document Type: Article

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