Darwin drift

English Etymology Named after Sir Charles Galton Darwin, who proved a related theorem in 1953. Noun - en fluid dynamics The phenomenon by which a fluid parcel is permanently displaced after the passage of a body through a fluid – the fluid being at rest far away from the body. en 2016 C.N. Likos; F. Sciortino; E. Zaccarelli Soft Matter Self-Assembly 9781614996620 392 z-component of any force on the surface of the swimmer and ρ the radial co- ordinate. v D is termed the Darwin drift: by comparison, for a colloid at zero Reynolds number this quantity is infinite. The magnitude of the Darwin drift is of the order. en eponyms