Waves, Algebraic Growth and Clumping in Sedimenting Disk Arrays

Rahul Chajwa, Narayanan Menon, Sriram Ramaswamy +1

An array of spheres descending slowly through a viscous fluid always clumps [J.M. Crowley, J. Fluid Mech. {\bf 45}, 151 (1971)]. We show that anisotropic particle shape qualitative…