Fluctuations and instability in sedimentation

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 43, Issue , 2011, Pages 97-116

  Guazzelli, Élisabeth ^a   Hinch, John ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diffusion; low Reynolds number; slender body; structural instability; suspension

Indexed keywords

CLEAR FLUID; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DILUTE SUSPENSIONS; HOMOGENEOUS SUSPENSIONS; INTER-PARTICLE SEPARATION; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SEDIMENTING SPHERE; SEMIDILUTE REGIME; SLENDER BODY; SPONTANEOUS INSTABILITY; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY; SUSPENSION; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS; VERTICAL VARIATION;

FIBERS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SPHERES; STABILITY; VELOCITY;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

DIFFUSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VELOCITY;

EID: 78649945051     PISSN: 00664189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-122109-160736     Document Type: Article

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