A note on the Stokes resistance tensors of multiparticle systems in shear fields

The Stokes resistance tensors (material tensors) of a multiparticle system subjected to a general shear flow depends on the spatial configuration of the particles, their shape, size and location of some arbitrarily fixed set of points locked to the particles by which their linear velocities are traced. The objective of this work is the determination of some symmetry properties of the material tensors and the transformation laws which govern them under translation of the set of points fixed to the particles.