The motion of small particles, drops, and bubbles in a viscous fluid at Reynolds number is one of the oldest classes of problems in theoretical mechanics, dating at least to Stokes’s (1851) analysis of the translation a rigid sphere through an unbounded quiescent fluid at zero Reynolds .
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