New bounds on the sedimentation velocity for hard, charged and adhesive hard-sphere colloids

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 667, Issue , 2011, Pages 403-425

  Gilleland, W Todd ^a   Torquato, Salvatore ^b   Russel, William B ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

colloids; low Reynolds number flows

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVES; COLLOIDS; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION;

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; DILUTE CONCENTRATIONS; EQUILIBRIUM MICROSTRUCTURES; HARD-SPHERE COLLOID; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERPARTICLE POTENTIAL; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOW; SEDIMENTATION VELOCITIES;

VELOCITY;

BROWNIAN MOTION; COLLOID; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SEDIMENTATION; SPHERE;

EID: 79951620335     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: 14697645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112010004490     Document Type: Article

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