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Equivalent potential temperature, commonly referred to as theta-e (), is a quantity that is conserved during changes to an air parcel's pressure (that is, during vertical motions in the atmosphere), even if water vapor condenses during that pressure change.
Thermofluids [1] [2] is a branch of science and engineering encompassing four intersecting fields: . Heat transfer; Thermodynamics; Fluid mechanics; Combustion; The term is a combination of "thermo", referring to heat, and "fluids", which refers to liquids, gases and vapors.
Dimensionless numbers (or characteristic numbers) have an important role in analyzing the behavior of fluids and their flow as well as in other transport phenomena. [1] They include the Reynolds and the Mach numbers, which describe as ratios the relative magnitude of fluid and physical system characteristics, such as density, viscosity, speed of sound, and flow speed.
In the same way that the heat transfer definition includes the specific heat capacity of the fluid, which describes the change in enthalpy of the fluid with respect to change in temperature and is defined as: = then a mass transfer-analogous specific mass capacity is required.
FPO – floating production and offloading – vessel with no or very limited (process only) on-board produced fluid storage capacity. FPSO – floating production storage and offloading vessel FPU – floating processing unit
A vortex ring, also called a toroidal vortex, is a torus-shaped vortex in a fluid; that is, a region where the fluid mostly spins around an imaginary axis line that forms a closed loop. The dominant flow in a vortex ring is said to be toroidal , more precisely poloidal .
Experiments in Fluids is a scientific, peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly by Springer Science+Business Media.The journal presents contributions that employ existing experimental techniques to gain an understanding of the underlying flow physics in specific areas.
Flux F through a surface, dS is the differential vector area element, n is the unit normal to the surface. Left: No flux passes in the surface, the maximum amount flows normal to the surface.