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Terminal Velocity

Terminal Velocity is the constant maximum velocity attained by a particle or object in free fall through a fluid medium when the gravitational force is balanced by the drag and buoyant forces, resulting in zero net acceleration.

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Drag coefficient and terminal velocity of spherical and nonspherical particles

Ali Shahbaz Haider, Octave Levenspiel · Powder Technology · 1989 · 2.1K citations

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THE TERMINAL VELOCITY OF FALL FOR WATER DROPLETS IN STAGNANT AIR

Ross Gunn, Gilbert D. Kinzer · Journal of Meteorology · 1949 · 1.6K citations

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Streaming Instabilities in Protoplanetary Disks

The Astrophysical Journal · 2005 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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The gravitational settling of aerosol particles in homogeneous turbulence and random flow fields

Martin Maxey · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1987 · 1.1K citations

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Settling velocity and concentration distribution of heavy particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Lian‐Ping Wang, Martin Maxey · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1993 · 1K citations

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    H. R. Pruppacher

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

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    Kenneth V. Beard

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    16 publications · 2.4K citations

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    Andrew J. Heymsfield

    NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

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    Akio Tomiyama

    Kobe University, Japan

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    A. E. Hamielec

    McMaster University, Canada

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

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  3. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

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  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    14 h-index

    42 publications

    1.2K citations

  5. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

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    24 publications

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  6. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    9 h-index

    29 publications

    1.4K citations

  7. University of Tehran

    Tehran, Iran

    9 h-index

    29 publications

    630 citations

  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

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  5. Physics of Fluids

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