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Simultaneous measurements of the velocity profiles inside and behind a packing made of spheres are used to establish the pattern of isothermal flow of a fluid inside the packing.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 49, No. 5, pp. 827–833, November, 1985.
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Volkov, V.I. Isothermal fluid flow in a packing of spheres. Journal of Engineering Physics 49, 1344–1349 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00871253
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