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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. Buys Ballot's law - Wikipedia

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    There, the observed wind speed of the storm is the sum of the speed of wind in the storm circulation plus the velocity of the storm's forward movement. Buys Ballot's law calls this the "Dangerous Quadrant". Likewise, in the left front quadrant of the storm the observed wind is the difference between the storm's wind velocity and its forward ...

  4. Betz's law - Wikipedia

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    This is a control-volume analysis; the control volume must contain all incoming and outgoing flow in order to use the conservation equations. The flow is non-compressible. Density is constant, and there is no heat transfer. Uniform pressure is applied to the disk. (No radial dependence on pressure in this 1-D model.)

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Wind setup - Wikipedia

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    Wind setup, also known as wind effect or storm effect, refers to the rise in water level in seas, lakes, or other large bodies of water caused by winds pushing the water in a specific direction. As the wind moves across the water’s surface, it applies shear stress to the water, generating a wind-driven current.

  8. Flow conditioning - Wikipedia

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    A pressure outlet boundary condition is used at exit of the settling chamber where pressure at outlet is set to zero for gauge pressure. It is always possible to predict the entire flow field by meshing whole fluid domain; however simulation for the prediction of entire flow field using symmetry boundary condition.

  9. Wind engineering - Wikipedia

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    Flow visualization of wind speed contours around a house Wind engineering covers the aerodynamic effects of buildings Damaged wind turbines due to hurricane Maria. Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage ...