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3 unusual facts about Fluid dynamics


Kaikorai Valley College

Pupils of Kaikorai Valley College use the adjacent Kaikorai Stream for outdoor education, studying water quality and flow, learning fly fishing and monitoring waste water.

Pygmy gourami

It is important to avoid any strong currents in the aquarium and need plenty of hiding places; a heavily planted tank with subdued lighting would be ideal.

Stephen E. Harding

Stephen E. Harding (born August 2, 1955) is a British biochemist specialising in biomolecular hydrodynamics.


Biorheology

Biorheological research aims to determine and characterize the dynamics of physiological processes at all levels of biological organization, and the inter-relationships between rheological properties of various biological systems.

Ōnaruto Bridge

Recurring whirlpools known as the Naruto whirlpools are located below the bridge, caused by tidal currents between the Seto Inland Sea and the Pacific Ocean passing over undersea ridges under the Span, causing very strong eddy currents, some of which make large, deep whirlpools.

Peter Killworth

He had varied interests across the whole of physical oceanography, including the study of ice, polynyas, Rossby waves, instabilities and eddies.

Physical quantity

Important and convenient derived quantities such as densities, fluxes, flows, currents are associated with many quantities.

Vagn Walfrid Ekman

Born in Stockholm to Fredrik Laurentz Ekman, himself an oceanographer, he became committed to oceanography while studying physics at the University of Uppsala and, in particular, on hearing Vilhelm Bjerknes lecture on fluid dynamics.

Vilhelm Bjerknes

Born in Christiania, Bjerknes enjoyed an early exposure to fluid dynamics, as assistant to his father, Carl Anton Bjerknes, who had discovered by mathematical analysis the apparent actions at a distance between pulsating and oscillating bodies in a fluid, and their analogy with the electric and magnetic actions at a distance.


see also

Cebeci

Cebeci–Smith model, a viscosity model used in computational fluid dynamics analysis

Curtis Carlson

A physics graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and PhD student at in geophysical fluid dynamics from Rutgers University, he joined Sarnoff Corporation after graduation and worked through the ranks.

Helmholtz's theorems

G. K. Batchelor, An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press (1967, reprinted in 2000).

Iribarren

Iribarren number, used in fluid dynamics to describe types of breaking waves and their effects on beaches and coastal structures

KFX

Kameleon FireEx KFX, a computational fluid dynamics simulation program focusing on gas dispersion and fire simulation.

Kutta–Joukowski theorem

Batchelor, G. K. (1967) An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press

Navier–Stokes equations

Similar to the Feynman diagrams in quantum field theory, these diagrams are an extension of Keldysh's technique for nonequilibrium processes in fluid dynamics.

Nick Wirth

Wirth used computational fluid dynamics extensively to design the LMP1 class car.

Shock capturing method

Tannehill, J. C., Anderson, D. A., and Pletcher, R. H., "Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer", 2nd ed.

Silicon Graphics International

On August 15, 2011, the company announced that it had acquired OpenCFD Ltd., developers of open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.

SU2

Stanford University Unstructured an open-source computational fluid dynamics solver