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Related to oblate spheroids: Oblate ellipsoid, prolate spheroids

spheroid

(sfeer -oid) See ellipsoid.

spheroid

[′sfir‚ȯid]
(mathematics)
ellipsoid of revolution
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Hamielec, "A numerical study of viscous flow past a thin oblate spheroid at low and intermediate reynolds numbers," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol.
Eigenfunction Expansions for the Stokes Flow Operators in the Inverted Oblate Coordinate System
Similar result holds for the population of oblate spheroids.
Local stereology of extremes
The covariant metric tensor in the gravitational field of a static homogeneous oblate spheroid in oblate spheroidal coordinates ([eta], [xi], [phi]) has been obtained [7, 12] as
Astrophysically satisfactory solutions to Einstein's R-33 gravitational field equations exterior/interior to static homogeneous oblate spheroidal masses
This relation has been derived recently (Pabst and Berthold, 2007), using a modified Stokes law for oblate spheroids and taking into account random orientation in the laser diffraction measurement via Cauchy's stereological theorem.
Influence of particle shape on the viscosity of kaolin suspensions

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