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Experiments on the pressure drop created by a sphere settling in a viscous liquid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

Irwin Pliskin  and
Howard Brenner
Irwin Pliskin
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, New York University
Howard Brenner
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, New York University
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Abstract

Experimental measurements were made of the difference in pressure at large distances on either side of a spherical particle settling slowly along the axis of a long circular tube filled with viscous liquid. At low particle Reynolds numbers and for small sphere-cylinder diameter ratios, it was found that the product of the pressure difference and the cross-sectional area of the tube is equal to twice the drag on the particle, in accord with theory.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , September 1963 , pp. 89 - 96
Copyright
© 1963 Cambridge University Press

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