Research Article

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

Table 2

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

(μm) (m2/s)
10−53 ⋅ 10−510−4

6−4,7712,3
7−3,469,03
8−2,596,86−8,1420,92
9−1,985,35−6,4116,51−21,5655,22
10−1,524,26−5.1713,35−17,4544,72
11−1,173,44−4,2411,01−14,4136,94
12−0,882,79−3,539,22−12,1031,04
13−0,632,26−2,987,82−10,3026,44
14−0,391,81−2,536,71−8,8722,78
15−0,151,40−2,165,81−7,7219,83
160,140,95−1,865,06
17−1,604,44−5,9815,42
18−1,373,91
19−1,183,46
20−1,003,06−4,2811,10
21−0,842,72
22−0,702,41
23−0,562,13
24−0,431,87
25−2,667,03
26−0,151,39
30−1,744,78
40−0,712,43
500,071,05