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Li et al. (2015) claim that it is sufficient to use two harmonic functions to express the general solution of Stokes equations. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is not true in a general case and that we in fact need three scalar harmonic functions to represent the general solution of Stokes equations (Venkatalaxmi et al., 2004).
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Padmavati, B.S., Amaranath, T. A note on general solution of Stokes equations. Acta Mech. Sin. 32, 1044–1045 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-016-0601-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-016-0601-3