Darwin drift
nounEtymology Named after Sir Charles Galton Darwin, who proved a related theorem in 1953.
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Fluid dynamics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics 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.
- 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.2016, C.N. Likos, F. Sciortino, E. Zaccarelli, Soft Matter Self-Assembly, →ISBN, page 392: