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On centrifugal separation of a mixture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

H. P. Greenspan
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Abstract

An exact solution of the equations of motion of a two-phase fluid is given which describes separation in a centrifugal force field. A retrograde rotation is always produced in the settling process, which is characterized by propagating kinematic shocks and a time-dependent volume fraction of the mixture.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1983 Cambridge University Press

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