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The general motion of a sphere in a viscous liquid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. P. Drazin
M. P. Drazin
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Trinity CollegeCambridge
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1. In his classical investigation of the motion of a sphere moving (without spin) in a fluid at rest at infinity, Stokes showed (using his method of ‘stream functions') that the sphere experiences a thrust − 6πμau, where a is the radius of the sphere, and μ, u have their usual meanings.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1951 , pp. 142 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1951

References

* Garstang, T. E., ‘The flow of viscous liquid past spinning bodies’, Proc. Roy. Soc. A, 142 (1933), 491–508.CrossRefGoogle Scholar