Sedimentation shock

ID: sedimentation-shock

A moving discontinuity of particle volume fraction in kinematic sedimentation. Conservation of particle volume gives the Rankine-Hugoniot condition in a consistently oriented coordinate. A clearing front and a deposit front can both be sedimentation shocks. A stationary deposit uses zero particle flux; its compacted branch need not obey the suspension flux law.

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