On the slow gravity-driven migration of arbitrary clusters of small solid particles

Antoine Sellier (1)

1 LadHyX - Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique

A new approach is advocated to compute at a low cpu time cost the rigid-body motions of settling solid particles when inertial effects are negligible. In addition to the relevant boundary-integral equations, the numerical implementation and a few convincing benchmark tests we address two configurations of equivalent spheres and spheroids, i.e. that exhibit when isolated the same settling velocity. © 2004 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.

Domains: Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph]; Fluids mechanics [physics.class-ph]

Antoine Sellier. On the slow gravity-driven migration of arbitrary clusters of small solid particles. Comptes Rendus Mécanique, 2004, 332 (12), pp.987-992. ⟨10.1016/j.crme.2004.09.002⟩. ⟨hal-01024940⟩