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Nonuniformity of the velocity field of a flux passing through a packed bed

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It is experimentally and theoretically shown that the sharp nonuniformity of the velocity at the outlet from a packed bed develops outside the bed as the flow passes through a curvilinear boundary.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 42–51, July, 1985.

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Gol'dshtik, M.A., Vaisman, A.M., Lebedev, A.V. et al. Nonuniformity of the velocity field of a flux passing through a packed bed. Journal of Engineering Physics 49, 784–791 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01276519

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