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Phys. Rev. E 53, 4209–4212 (1996)

Agglomerate erosion: A nonscaling solution to the fragmentation equation

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S. Hansen and J. M. Ottino
Laboratory for Fluid Mechanics, Chaos and Mixing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208

Received 25 October 1995; published in the issue dated April 1996

The erosion of agglomerates in viscous flows—a process proportional to surface area of the agglomerate—is analyzed by means of fragmentation theory. An analytical solution is obtained; this solution cannot be described by the usual scaling ansatz, nor does it have an asymptotic form. Fitting to available data is discussed. © 1996 The American Physical Society.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.53.4209
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.53.4209
PACS:
05.40.+j, 82.20.Mj, 82.70.-y, 92.40.Gc