Relative velocity of inertial particles in turbulent flows

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 661, Issue , 2010, Pages 73-107

  Pan, Liubin ^a,b   Padoan, Paolo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

particle fluid flows; turbulent flows

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW VELOCITY; FRICTION; PHASE SEPARATION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY;

ACCELERATION TERMS; IDENTICAL PARTICLES; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; PARTICLE/FLUID FLOWS; PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION; TWO-PHASE SEPARATION; VELOCITY CORRELATIONS; VELOCITY DIFFERENCE;

SHEAR FLOW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW MODELING; FLOW VELOCITY; INERTIA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE MOTION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RICHARDS EQUATION; STOKES FORMULA; TURBULENT FLOW; TWO PHASE FLOW;

EID: 78649923004     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010002855     Document Type: Article

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