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Hydrodynamic Forces and Torques for a Nonspherical Particle Oblate Spheroid in a Uniform Flow Consider the creeping flow of a uniform stream passing an oblate spheroid at rest as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Schematic of an oblate spheroid in a uniform creeping flow. The appropriate coordinate system is oblate spheroidal coordinates
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