Predicting the drag coefficient and settling velocity of spherical particles

Powder Technology

Volumn 239, Issue , 2013, Pages 12-20

  Terfous, A ^a   Hazzab, A ^b   Ghenaim, A ^a  

^a Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAIDA   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Computational method; Drag coefficient; Fluid at rest; Settling velocity; Spherical particle

Indexed keywords

AT RESTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; SETTLING VELOCITY; SPHERICAL PARTICLE;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; SPHERES;

VELOCITY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; DRAG COEFFICIENT; FLUID FLOW; PREDICTION; SETTLING VELOCITY; SOLID; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; VELOCITY;

EID: 84874379631     PISSN: 00325910     EISSN: 1873328X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2013.01.052     Document Type: Article

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