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What is creeping flow?
Stokes flow (named after George Gabriel Stokes), also named creeping flow or creeping motion, is a type of fluid flow where advective inertial forces are small compared with viscous forces.
Was creeping flow one of Sir George Stokes' biggest accomplishments?
Creeping Flow was among Sir George Stokes' many accomplishments in mathematics and science.
What else is important about this work?
Creeping flow was first studied to understand lubrication.

Question: What sort of applications does this have?
Self-contained rewrite: What sort of applications does this have?