Turbulent pair dispersion of inertial particles

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 645, Issue , 2010, Pages 497-528

  Bec, J ^a   Biferale, L ^b   Lanotte, A S ^c,d   Scagliarini, A ^b   Toschi, F ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI LECCE   (Italy)

^e EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; DISPERSIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TRACERS; VELOCITY CONTROL;

EQUATION OF MOTION; HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC; INERTIAL PARTICLES; PARTICLE STOKES NUMBER; PARTICLE VELOCITIES; RELATIVE DISPERSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TURBULENCE; TURBULENT DISPERSION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; STOKES FORMULA; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 77952326548     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112009992783     Document Type: Article

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