Colliding particles in highly turbulent flows

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Mehlig, Bernhard ^a   Uski, Ville ^b   Wilkinson, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); DAMPING; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VISCOUS FLOW;

COLLISION RATE; KOLMOGOROV CASCADE; RELATIVE VELOCITY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); DAMPING; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 34848911619     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2768931     Document Type: Article

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