Stokes far-field multipoles of a deforming body

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With body-outward normal , put , , , and . Taylor expansion of the exterior boundary integral representation of Stokes flow gives a Stokeslet from , a rotlet from , a source from , and a stresslet from . Thus and are the force and torque exerted on the fluid, while is the instantaneous displaced-volume rate. A volume-preserving deforming body has .

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