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The author analyzes the model of a fluidized bed consisting of two miscible phases. In the barotropic case this model is: \[ \partial_ t(1- \varphi)+\hbox{div}[(1-\varphi)v]=0,\quad \partial_ t\varphi+\hbox{div}(\varphi u)=0,\tag{*} \] \[ F(1-\varphi)(\dot v+v\cdot\nabla v)=-(1-\varphi)k+B(\varphi)(u-v)+| G(\varphi)|\nabla\varphi-(1-\varphi)\nabla p+(F/R)(\Delta+\kappa\nabla\hbox {div})v, \] \[ F\delta\varphi(\dot u+u\cdot\nabla u)=-\delta\varphi k-B(\varphi)(u-v)-\varphi\nabla p+\nu(F/R)(\Delta+\bar\kappa\nabla\hbox {div})u. \] Hereby \(\varphi\) is the fluid volume fraction or voidage, \(u\) is the fluid velocity, \(v\) the particle phase velocity, \(k\) is the direction against gravity, \(p\) is some ``weighted pressure'', \(G(\varphi)\) is related to the partial weighted pressures; \(R\) is the Reynolds, \(F\) the Froude number; \(\nu\) and \(\delta\) are the relations of the fluid viscosity or specific density to that of the particle phase, respectively. Let \(\nu=\delta=0\),then \(u=v- \varphi B^{-1}(\varphi)\nabla p\). For the linear problem (*), using the Schauder fixed point theorem, the author proves the existence and uniqueness of a time-dependent periodic solution of the Cauchy problem ``in small''.