Oseen’s correction to stokes drag revisited

In the present review article, intensive survey on Oseen’s approximation, Oseen’s correction and solution to Oseen’s equation is presented. Further, general expressions of Oseen’s correction to Stokes drag on axially symmetric particle placed in uniform stream parallel to axis of symmetry (longitudinal flow) and perpendicular to axis of symmetry (transverse flow) are derived with the help of DS-conjecture(Datta and Srivastava, 1999). These results are applied to sphere and spheroids to evaluate the Oseen’s drag corrected up to first order terms in Reynolds number Re. Some practical applications are also highlighted.