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A special case of the theory of oriented fluids has been proposed as a model for the flow of dilute suspensions. The paper shows how the proposed theory may be regarded as an analogy of the classical theory of binary mixtures.
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DeSilva, C.N. Dilute fluid suspensions. Acta Mechanica 47, 1–14 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01176496
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