A novel approach to computing the orientation moments of spheroids in simple shear flow at arbitrary Péclet number

DOI10.1063/1.1426391zbMath1184.76036MaRDI QIDQ3555786

V. Kumaran, K. Asokan, T. R. Ramamohan

Publication date: 22 April 2010

Published in: Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/5fc9b373f06849ba335404202afb7f9027855c2a

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equation; computational fluid dynamics; suspensions; shear flow; multiphase flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76-XX: Fluid mechanics

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