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viscosity fluid flow Navier-Stokes equation laminar flow geostrophic motion turbulent flow Bernoulli’s theorem Torricelli’s law Reynolds number Froude number drag lift

Key People

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet

British mathematician and physicist