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# On the motion of rigid bodies in an incompressible or compressible viscous fluid under the action of gravitational forces

• The global existence of weak solutions is proved for the problem of the motion of several rigid bodies either in a non-Newtonian fluid of power law type or in a barotropic compressible fluid, under the influence of gravitational forces.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 35Q30, 65N30, 76D05, 76N10.

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