Dynamics of bidisperse suspensions under Stokes flows: Linear shear flow and sedimentation

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Abbas, Micheline ^a   Climent, Eric ^a   Simonin, Olivier ^b   Maxey, Martin R ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉNIE CHIMIQUE   (France)

^b IMFT   (France)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow instability; Flow simulation; Hydrodynamics; Numerical analysis; Pattern formation; Sedimentation; Self diffusion; Shear flow; Suspensions; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR FLOW; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; AUTOCORRELATION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; KINETIC THEORY; VELOCITY;

BIDISPERSE SUSPENSIONS; STOKES FLOW; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STOKES EQUATIONS; HOMOGENEOUS SUSPENSIONS; HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTION; MONO-DISPERSE PARTICLES; MULTI-BODY INTERACTIONS; MULTIBODY HYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; NONHYDRODYNAMIC INTERACTIONS; SELF-DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; VOLUMETRIC CONCENTRATIONS;

TWO PHASE FLOW; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR FLOW; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 33846036150     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2396916     Document Type: Article

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