Non-poisson statistics of settling spheres

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Bergougnoux, Laurence ^a   Guazzelli, Élisabeth ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; PHYSICS;

PARTICLE POSITION; POISSON STATISTIC; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SEDIMENTING SUSPENSIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 71049168389     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3231828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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