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  2. Incompressible flow - Wikipedia

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    In fluid dynamics, a flow is considered incompressible if the divergence of the flow velocity is zero. However, related formulations can sometimes be used, depending on the flow system being modelled. Some versions are described below: Incompressible flow: =. This can assume either constant density (strict incompressible) or varying density flow.

  3. Navier–Stokes equations - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the continuity equation for an incompressible fluid reduces further to: = This relationship, =, identifies that the divergence of the flow velocity vector is equal to zero (), which means that for an incompressible fluid the flow velocity field is a solenoidal vector field or a divergence-free vector field.

  4. Bernoulli's principle - Wikipedia

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    The flow speed of a fluid can be measured using a device such as a Venturi meter or an orifice plate, which can be placed into a pipeline to reduce the diameter of the flow. For a horizontal device, the continuity equation shows that for an incompressible fluid, the reduction in diameter will cause an increase in the fluid flow speed.

  5. Helmholtz minimum dissipation theorem - Wikipedia

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    The Poiseuille flow theorem [7] is a consequence of the Helmholtz theorem states that The steady laminar flow of an incompressible viscous fluid down a straight pipe of arbitrary cross-section is characterized by the property that its energy dissipation is least among all laminar (or spatially periodic) flows down the pipe which have the same total flux.

  6. Hagen–Poiseuille equation - Wikipedia

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    In non ideal fluid dynamics, the Hagen–Poiseuille equation, also known as the Hagen–Poiseuille law, Poiseuille law or Poiseuille equation, is a physical law that gives the pressure drop in an incompressible and Newtonian fluid in laminar flow flowing through a long cylindrical pipe of constant cross section.

  7. Derivation of the Navier–Stokes equations - Wikipedia

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    The flow is incompressible and Newtonian. Coordinates are orthogonal. Flow is 2D: u 3 = ⁠ ∂u 1 / ∂x 3 ⁠ = ⁠ ∂u 2 / ∂x 3 ⁠ = 0; The first two scale factors of the coordinate system are independent of the last coordinate: ⁠ ∂h 1 / ∂x 3 ⁠ = ⁠ ∂h 2 / ∂x 3 ⁠ = 0, otherwise extra terms appear. The stream function has ...

  8. Euler equations (fluid dynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Thus for an incompressible inviscid fluid the specific internal energy is constant along the flow lines, also in a time-dependent flow. The pressure in an incompressible flow acts like a Lagrange multiplier, being the multiplier of the incompressible constraint in the energy equation, and consequently in incompressible flows it has no ...

  9. Stream function - Wikipedia

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    The Stokes stream function, named after George Gabriel Stokes, [2] is defined for incompressible, three-dimensional flows with axisymmetry. The properties of stream functions make them useful for analyzing and graphically illustrating flows.