potential flow
fluid mechanics
Also known as: velocity potential, vorticity-free flow
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- In fluid mechanics: Potential flow
This section is concerned with an important class of flow problems in which the vorticity is everywhere zero, and for such problems the Navier-Stokes equation may be greatly simplified. For one thing, the viscosity term drops out of it. For another, the nonlinear…
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