fluid flow
Current through pipes
Fluid flow is the movement of liquids or gases through space or within a system.
The term appears in physics, engineering, and medicine: The engineer calculated fluid flow through the pipe, Poor fluid flow can cause equipment failure.
Blood circulation is a form of fluid flow.
The study of fluid flow—how it behaves under different pressures, temperatures, and constraints—underlies fields from aerodynamics to plumbing.
- laminarArranged in thin layers
- hydrodynamicsScience of liquid motion
- viscosityFluid's flow resistance
- incompressibleCannot be made smaller
- turbulenceChaotic flow patterns
Bernoulli's principle · aerodynamics · streamline · vortex · drag · boundary layer · single-phase · pressure gradient · steady · steady state · pressure · energy conservation · pipe · open channel · water main · hydraulic · pump · current
- motionmotion, movement, velocity, speed, momentum
- flowsbackflow, current, flux, circulation, ebb
- fluid systemspumps, valves, pipes, hydraulic systems, pipelines
- Mechanical Engineeringmechanical engineer, design engineer, valves, motors, aerospace engineer
- CFDboundary conditions, boundary layer, pressure gradient, convergence, solvers
- fluid dynamicsturbulence, streamlines, flowmeter, boundary layer, pressure drop
fluid flowstagnation
Absence of flow or progress
stasis · stillness · motionlessness · quiescence · standing water
fluid flowblockage
Obstruction halting movement
obstruction · stoppage · occlusion · dam · clog
flow, fluid, flowing, overflow, flows, flowed, outflow, inflow, overflowed