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Coalescence of concentrated fine-disperse emulsions during turbulent stirring

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The coalescence of droplets due to an average gradient of velocity fluctuations is considered and its dependence on the concentration of the dispersed phase is analyzed within the framework of the theory of locally isotropic turbulence.

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  1. A. K. Rozentsvaig
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  2. L. P. Pergushev
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1013–1018, June, 1981.

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Rozentsvaig, A.K., Pergushev, L.P. Coalescence of concentrated fine-disperse emulsions during turbulent stirring. Journal of Engineering Physics 40, 608–612 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00825447

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