Concentration instability of sedimenting spheres in a second-order fluid

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Vishnampet, Ramanathan ^a   Saintillan, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELDS; LINEAR STABILITY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPHERES;

CONCENTRATION FLUCTUATION; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; HOMOGENEOUS SUSPENSIONS; INTERACTING PARTICLES; NONLINEAR COUPLING; SECOND-ORDER FLUIDS; SEDIMENTING SPHERE; VELOCITY FLUCTUATIONS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 84864742464     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4733700     Document Type: Article

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