Elaboration of Hocking's hydrodynamic theory

C. L. Olson

ResearchPublished 1965

Part of a study of the physics of cloud particle collisions, this Memorandum is a verification and improvement of L. M. Hocking's hydrodynamic theory of collection efficiency. The resulting infinite sets of equations that must be solved for the forces acting on two spheres falling in a viscous medium corroborate Hocking; the author shows, however, that Hocking's solution of these equations has large errors if the spheres are close together. A suitable method for solving the equations is developed along with a procedure for accurately determining the errors.

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Olson, C. L., Elaboration of Hocking's hydrodynamic theory. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1965. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM4715.html.
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