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