The steady flow of a suspension of closely fitting, neutrally buoyant, incompressible and elastic spheres through a circular cylindrical tube is investigated under the assumption that lubrication theory is valid in the fluid region. A series solution giving the displacement field of an elastic incompressible sphere under axisymmetrically distributed surface tractions is developed. It is found that, for closely fitting particles, flow properties of the suspension are strongly dependent on the shear modulus of the elastic material and the velocity of the particle.
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