The variance in the sedimentation speed for a homogeneous suspension of solid spheres in a Stokes fluid is calculated for a particular choice of the distribution function of the spheres. In the infinite particle number limit, the variance is found to be infinite.

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Caflisch et al. (Fri,) studied this question.

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