“…Another approach to define the drag coefficient of nonspherical particles is to consider their actual projected areas. Especially for flow regimes with
greater than 100, particles tend to settle with the largest projected area perpendicular to the direction of motion (Bagheri & Bonadonna,
2016; Knoll et al.,
2019). Then, the drag coefficient, denoted as
, is determined by substituting
and
into Equation 1, as follows:
…”