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An arbitrary Stokes flow of a viscous, incompressible fluid inside a sphere with internal singularities, enclosed by a porous spherical shell, using Brinkman’s equation for the flow in the porous region is discussed. At the interface of the clear fluid and porous region stress jump boundary condition for tangential stresses is used. The drag and torque are found by deriving the corresponding Faxen’s laws. It is found that drag and torque not only change with the varying permeability, but also change for different values of stress jump coefficient. Critical permeability is found for which drag and torque change their behavior. As a limiting case the corresponding Faxen’s laws for the rigid spherical shell with internal singularities has been obtained.
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Received: December 17, 2002; revised: February 3, 2004
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Bhattacharyya, A., Raja Sekhar, G.P. Stokes flow inside a porous spherical shell: Stress jump boundary condition. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 56, 475–496 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-004-2115-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-004-2115-2