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

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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet

British mathematician and physicist