Article
Effective-medium theories for predicting hydrodynamic transport properties of bidisperse suspensions
Physics of Fluids
(2002)
Abstract
Effective-medium theories for predicting conditionally averaged velocity field and hydrodynamic transport coefficients of monodisperse suspensions are extended to bidisperse suspensions. The predictions of the theory are shown to agree very well with the results of direct numerical simulations of bidisperse suspensions with hard-sphere configurations up to volume fractions at which phase separation in bidisperse hard-sphere systems are observed.
Keywords
- suspensions,
- hydrodynamics,
- numerical analysis,
- phase separation,
- two-phase flow,
- liquid theory,
- sedimentation
Disciplines
Publication Date
2002
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The article may be found at
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1503352
Citation Information
Ashok S. Sangani and Sangkyun Koo. "Effective-medium theories for predicting hydrodynamic transport properties of bidisperse suspensions" Physics of Fluids Vol. 14 Iss. 10 (2002) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ashok_sangani/11/