Hydrodynamic diffusion of a sphere sedimenting through a dilute suspension of neutrally buoyant spheres

DOI10.1017/S0022112092001514zbMath0747.76049MaRDI QIDQ4006845

Robert H. Davis, Nicholas A. Hill

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

hydrodynamic interactions; mean velocity; trajectory analysis; volume integrals; variance of the velocity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76R50: Diffusion

76D99: Incompressible viscous fluids

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