An Experimental Approach to the Study of Sedimentation of Dispersed Particles in a Centrifugal Field

Experiments were carried out with the separation analyzer on manipulated rigid and spherical blood cells for the verification of an established one-dimensional; mixture fluid model. In particular the influence of particle volume concentration as well as of the angular velocity on the sedimentation process was investigated.  Justification could be furnished for the one-dimensional model based on the theory of kinematic waves and shocks.  In addition, an algorithm has been developed for the experimental determination of the suspension's effective or apparent viscosity

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