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Colliding Particles in Highly Turbulent Flows

Bernhard Mehlig, Ville Uski, Michael Wilkinson

nlin.CDarXiv:nlin/0612008

Abstract

We discuss relative velocities and the collision rate of small particles suspended in a highly turbulent fluid. In the limit where the viscous damping is very weak, we estimate the relative velocities using the Kolmogorov cascade principle.

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