Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1990, 55, 403-408
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19900403
Explicit relationships for the terminal velocity of spherical particles
Miloslav Hartman, Václav Veselý, Karel Svoboda and Vladimír Havlín
Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 165 02 Prague 6-Suchdol
Abstract
The Turton-Levenspiel correlation for the drag coefficient of a sphere is employed to compare recently proposed explicit equations to predict the free-fall conditions. Predictions of four different expressions are explored over a wide range of Archimedes number.