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Aerosol Kinetics Particle Path For constant fluid velocity, integrating Equation 5, the position of the particle is given by
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is the initial position of the particle.
For a particle starting from rest, when
the fluid velocity is in the x-direction and gravity is in the negative
y-direction Equation 10 reduces to
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where the ration of the terminal velocity to the fluid velocity α is given by
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That is the particle paths are straight lines. Figure 3 shows sample particle trajectories.
