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Resonant sideband instabilities in wave propagation in fluidized beds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2006

A. K. Didwania
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
G. M. Homsy
Affiliation:
Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305

Abstract

We consider possible mechanisms for the observed secondary instability of travelling instability waves in liquid fluidized beds. The resonance conditions for quadratic nonlinear interaction are solved in the long-wave limit by perturbation theory. The estimated horizontal wavenumber of the resonant sideband agrees well with experiment and supports the proposed mechanism.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1982 Cambridge University Press

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