| stream function |
| position vector |
| irrotational Stokes operator |
| rotational Stokes operator |
| velocity field |
| pressure field |
| shear viscosity |
| velocity components |
| axisymmetric coordinate system |
| drag force |
| circular cylindrical coordinate |
| circular cylindrical coordinate |
| metric coefficients |
| radial cylindrical coordinate |
| cartesian coordinates |
| drag coefficient |
U | particle speed | A | cross sectional area |
| the fluid density |
| settling terminal velocity |
| the mean particle density | g | local acceleration of gravity vector |
V | particle’s volume |
| Gegenbauer functions of n-th degree |
| spherical coordinate system |
| cardioid coordinate system |
| prolate coordinate system | c | semifocal distance in prolate geometry |
| oblate coordinate system | a | semifocal distance in oblate geometry |
| bispherical coordinate system |
| toroidal coordinate system |
| parabolic coordinate system |
| tangent sphere coordinate system |
| first order modified Bessel functions |
| first order Bessel functions |
| stream function for blood plasma flow past a RBC | ||
| stream function for blood plasma flow past a swarm of RBCs | ||
| stream function for blood plasma flow past two aggregated LDLs |