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Pressure-correlated dispersion of inertial particles in free shear flows

Kun Luo1, Jianren Fan, Kefa Cen

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People's Republic of China.

Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
|May 16, 2007
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