Diffusivities and front propagation in sedimentation

DOI10.1063/1.1564824zbMath1186.76387OpenAlexW2074254555MaRDI QIDQ3556454

Peter J. Mucha, Michael P. Brenner

Publication date: 22 April 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/41560b57f9c15708ebc6f45474861647c65eef6f

zbMATH Keywords

diffusiontwo-phase flowfluctuationscreeping flowhydrodynamicssedimentationflow simulationstratified flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fluid mechanics (76-XX)

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