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Fluid mechanics, science concerned with the response of fluids to forces exerted upon them. It is a branch of classical physics with applications of great importance in hydraulic and aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, meteorology, and zoology.
Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids ( liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them. [1] : 3 It has applications in a wide range of disciplines, including mechanical, aerospace, civil, chemical, and biomedical engineering, as well as geophysics, oceanography, meteorology, astrophysics, and biology .
14.4 Archimedes’ Principle and Buoyancy. Buoyant force is the net upward force on any object in any fluid. If the buoyant force is greater than the object’s weight, the object will rise to the surface and float. If the buoyant force is less than the object’s weight, the object will sink.
Fluid mechanics is a branch of continuous mechanics which deals with a relationship between forces, motions, and statical conditions in a continuous material. This study area deals with many and diversified problems such as surface tension, fluid statics, flow in enclose bodies, or flow round bodies (solid or otherwise), flow stability, etc.
A fluid is a state of matter that yields to sideways or shearing forces. Liquids and gases are both fluids. Fluid statics is the physics of stationary fluids. Density is the mass per unit volume of a substance or object while pressure is the force per unit perpendicular area over which the force is applied.
Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics or the study of fluids at rest; and fluid dynamics or the study of the effect of forces on fluid motion. Fluid mechanics has a wide range of applications, including mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, geophysics, astrophysics, and biology.
Introduction to basic principles of fluid mechanics. I. Flow Descriptions. 1. Lagrangian (following the particle): In rigid body mechanics the motion of a body is described in terms of the body’s position in time. This body can be translating and possibly rotating, but not deforming.
Fluid mechanics is the physics of flowing matter, which includes, but is not limited to, cars moving through the traffic grid, waste flowing through the sewer system, gases moving through an engine, or sap moving sucrose from the leaves to the distal parts of a tree.
fluid mechanics, Study of the effects of forces and energy on liquids and gases. One branch of the field, hydrostatics, deals with fluids at rest; the other, fluid dynamics, deals with fluids in motion and with the motion of bodies through fluids.
What is volume flow rate? What is Bernoulli's equation? Viscosity and Poiseuille flow. Turbulence at high velocities and Reynold's number. Venturi effect and Pitot tubes. Surface Tension and Adhesion. This unit is part of the Physics library. Browse videos, articles, and exercises by topic.
