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# Steady free fall of one-dimensional bodies in a hyperviscous fluid at low Reynolds number

• The paper is devoted to the study of the motion of one-dimensional rigid bodies during a free fall in a quasi-Newtonian hyperviscous fluid at low Reynolds number. We show the existence of a steady solution and furnish sufficient conditions on the geometry of the body in order to get purely translational motions. Such conditions are based on a generalized version of the so-called Reciprocal Theorem for fluids.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 76D07; Secondary: 35Q35, 35J91.

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