Research Article

Formulation of the Settling Velocity of Small Particles Initially Situated inside an Inclined Vortex

Table 1

Limit dimensionless values for the mesh of particles in the trapping region of a Rankine vortex as a function of .

Limit values

0,24−2,0285,468
0,22−2,2435,994
0,20−2,4976,623
0,18−2,8057,388
0,16−3,1878,340
0,15−3,4148,910
0,14−3,6729,561
0,13−3,97010,310
0,12−4,31511,183
0,11−4,72312,214
0,10−5,21013,450
0,09−5,80414,958
0,08−6,54416,842
0,07−7,49119,263
0,06−8,75822,487
0,05−10,52627,000
0,04−13,17333,763
0,03−17,58145,035
0,02−26,38965,570
0,008−66,003168,953
0,006−88,007225,275