Experimental and modeling study of breakage and restructuring of open and dense colloidal aggregates

Langmuir

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5739-5752

  Harshe, Yogesh M ^a   Lattuada, Marco ^a   Soos, Miroslav ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE SIZE; AGGREGATE STRUCTURES; BREAKAGE PROCESS; CLUSTER STRUCTURE; COLLOIDAL AGGREGATES; COMPLEX FLOW; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; CONTACT INTERACTION; CRITICAL FLOW CONDITIONS; ELONGATIONAL FLOW; EXTENSIONAL FLOWS; HYDRODYNAMIC STRESS; INITIAL STRUCTURES; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; INTERPARTICLE FORCE; MODELING STUDIES; PRIMARY PARTICLE SIZE; PRIMARY PARTICLES; RADIUS OF GYRATION; REAL FLOW; SIMPLE SHEAR; SIMPLE SHEAR FLOW; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; STOKESIAN DYNAMICS SIMULATION; STREAM LINES; STRUCTURE EVOLUTION;

AGGREGATES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FRACTAL DIMENSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; NOZZLES; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; SHEAR FLOW;

AGGLOMERATION;

EID: 79958083741     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la1046589     Document Type: Article

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