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Science 27 May 1977:
Vol. 196. no. 4293, pp. 983 - 985
DOI: 10.1126/science.196.4293.983
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Chainlike Formation of Particle Deposits in Fluid-Particle Separation

CHI TIEN 1, CHIU-SEN WANG 1, and D. T. BAROT 1

1 Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13210

A theory is proposed for the formation and growth of particle dendrites on a collector placed in an aerosol or hydrosol stream. It is based on the interplay of two intrinsic properties of suspended particles: (i) their finite size and (ii) the randomness of the location of individual particles in the fluid stream. The results of simulations based on this theory resemble those obtained from experiments.

Submitted on August 23, 1976
Revised on November 23, 1976

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