The motion of fibers in an evolving mixing layer

The motion of ellipsoidal particles immersed in a viscous fluid

G. B. Jeffery · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character · 1922 · 3.9K citations · Full text

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The lift on a small sphere in a slow shear flow

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Slender-body theory for particles of arbitrary cross-section in Stokes flow

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The motion of rigid particles in a shear flow at low Reynolds number

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On the inviscid instability of the hyperbolictangent velocity profile

A. Michalke · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1964 · 656 citations

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