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  2. Center of pressure (fluid mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Center of pressure is used in sailboat design to represent the position on a sail where the aerodynamic force is concentrated.. The relationship of the aerodynamic center of pressure on the sails to the hydrodynamic center of pressure (referred to as the center of lateral resistance) on the hull determines the behavior of the boat in the wind.

  3. Pressure-wind relationship calculations for tropical cyclones

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    The interchangeability of pressure and wind allows for the two to be used to give equivalencies for the public. [3] Pressure-wind relations can be used when information is incomplete, forcing forecasters to rely on the Dvorak Technique. [8] Some storms may have particularly high or low pressures that do not match with their wind speed.

  4. Pipe network analysis - Wikipedia

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    To direct water to many users, municipal water supplies often route it through a water supply network. A major part of this network will consist of interconnected pipes. This network creates a special class of problems in hydraulic design, with solution methods typically referred to as pipe network analysis. Water utilities generally make use ...

  5. Betz's law - Wikipedia

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    In high wind speed, where the turbine is operating at its rated power, the turbine rotates (pitches) its blades to lower C P to protect itself from damage. The power in the wind increases by a factor of 8 from 12.5 to 25 m/s, so C P must fall accordingly, getting as low as 0.06 for winds of 25 m/s.

  6. Center of lateral resistance - Wikipedia

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    The fundamental cause of "helm", be it weather or lee, is the relationship of the center of pressure of the sail plan to the center of lateral resistance of the hull. If the center of pressure is astern of the center of lateral resistance, the result is a weather helm, the tendency of the vessel to want to turn into the wind.

  7. Dvorak technique - Wikipedia

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    Common developmental patterns seen during tropical cyclone development, and their Dvorak-assigned intensities. The Dvorak technique (developed between 1969 and 1984 by Vernon Dvorak) is a widely used system to estimate tropical cyclone intensity (which includes tropical depression, tropical storm, and hurricane/typhoon/intense tropical cyclone intensities) based solely on visible and infrared ...

  8. Low-pressure area - Wikipedia

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    [50] [52] Friction with land slows down the wind flowing into low-pressure systems and causes wind to flow more inward, or flowing more ageostrophically, toward their centers. [48] Tornadoes are often too small, and of too short duration, to be influenced by the Coriolis force, but may be so-influenced when arising from a low-pressure system ...

  9. Water pinch analysis - Wikipedia

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    The source and sink composite curves is a graphical tool for setting water recovery targets as well as for design of water recovery networks. [5] A 2018 study found by water pinch and water footprint analysis that for bricks with typical materials of clay and shale, the water consumption footprint was 2.02 L of water per brick. [6]