Published December 1959 | Version Campus-Access Only
Journal Article

The Settling Properties of Suspensions

Abstract

This paper contains the results of an analytical and experimental investigation of the settling properties of suspensions of particles in fluid. The use of these properties in predicting the sedimentation of the particles is outlined.

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©1959 ASCE. Paper 2311. This paper is based on a thesis submitted to the California Institute of Technology in 1958 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. The writer is grateful to Professor Jack E. McKee for his supervision and generous assistance during the course of the research. The experimental work was carried out with the aid of research grant (RG-4405) from the Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service.

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49209
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RG-4405

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Hydrodynamics Laboratory
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