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 Aerosols
Introduction to Aerosols | Drag, Lift Forces | Aerosol Kinetics | Virtual Mass, Basset Forces & BBO Equation | Nonspherical Particles | Brownian Motions | Particle Deposition Mechanisms | Electrodynamics | Aerosol Coagulation |

Particle Deposition Mechanisms: Diffusion to a Cylinder

The boundary conditions given by (4) for small aerosols reduce to

(6)

Introducing the stream function

(7)

and using x and  as independent variables, one finds

(8)

When the concentration boundary layer is thin, the stream function given by (1) may be approximated as

(9)

where

(10)

Here

(11)



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