The rate of coagulation of a dilute polydisperse system of sedimenting spheres

DOI10.1017/S002211208400286XzbMath0571.76102OpenAlexW2161066547MaRDI QIDQ3688015

Robert H. Davis

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/s002211208400286x

zbMATH Keywords

gravityasymptotic solutionsedimentationnumerical computationsvan der Waals forcetrajectory analysisdilute dispersionhydrosol and aerosol dispersionsMaxwell sliprate of coagulationsmall rigid particles in a Newtonian fluid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99)

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• The effect of slip on the motion of a sphere close to a wall and of two adjacent spheres
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