Dedicated vertical wind tunnel for the study of sedimentation of non-spherical particles.

@article{Bagheri2013DedicatedVW,
  title={Dedicated vertical wind tunnel for the study of sedimentation of non-spherical particles.},
  author={Gholamhossein Bagheri and Costanza Bonadonna and Irene Manzella and Piero Pontelandolfo and Patrick Haas},
  journal={The Review of scientific instruments},
  year={2013},
  volume={84 5},
  pages={
          054501
        }
}
A dedicated 4-m-high vertical wind tunnel has been designed and constructed at the University of Geneva in collaboration with the Groupe de compétence en mécanique des fluides et procédés énergétiques. With its diverging test section, the tunnel is designed to study the aero-dynamical behavior of non-spherical particles with terminal velocities between 5 and 27 ms(-1). A particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) code is developed to calculate drag coefficient of particles in standard conditions based… 
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