Closed analytic Stokes flow solutions for general shapes are quite improbable, but semianalytic numerical procedures allow flow calculations for a variety of shapes. The change in drag with change in shape from a sphere, here expressed in terms of a form factor, is discussed and compared to empirical shape factors developed from sedimentation experiments.
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