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  2. Water potential - Wikipedia

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    These solutions have negative water potential, relative to the pure water reference. With no restriction on flow, water will move from the locus of greater potential (pure water) to the locus of lesser (the solution); flow proceeds until the difference in potential is equalized or balanced by another water potential factor, such as pressure or ...

  3. Pressure-retarded osmosis - Wikipedia

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    The ideal water potential between fresh water (right) and sea water (left) corresponds to a hydraulic head of 270 metres. Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is a technique to separate a solvent (for example, fresh water) from a solution that is more concentrated (e.g. sea water) and also pressurized.

  4. Restrictive flow orifice - Wikipedia

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    A restrictive flow orifice (RFO) is a type of orifice plate.They are used to limit the potential danger, damage, or wastage of an uncontrolled flow from, for example, a compressed gas cylinder [1] [2] They are generally not limiting the flow during normal operation but if a fault or failure occurs causing uncontrolled flow the orifice will present a restriction, limiting the flow.

  5. Bernoulli's principle - Wikipedia

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    Bernoulli's principle is a key concept in fluid dynamics that relates pressure, density, speed and height. Bernoulli's principle states that an increase in the speed of a parcel of fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in either the pressure or the height above a datum. [1]:

  6. Pressure-volume curves - Wikipedia

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    In ecology, pressure-volume curves describe the relationship between total water potential (Ψt) and relative water content (R) of living organisms.These values are widely used in research on plant-water relations and provide valuable information on the turgor, osmotic and elastic properties of plant tissues.

  7. Soil-plant-atmosphere continuum - Wikipedia

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    This shows the net movement of water down its potential energy gradient, from highest water potential in the soil to lowest water potential in the air. [1] The soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) is the pathway for water moving from soil through plants to the atmosphere. Continuum in the description highlights the continuous nature of water ...

  8. Potential flow - Wikipedia

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    Potential-flow streamlines around a NACA 0012 airfoil at 11° angle of attack, with upper and lower streamtubes identified. The flow is two-dimensional and the airfoil has infinite span. In fluid dynamics, potential flow or irrotational flow refers to a description of a fluid flow with no vorticity in it.

  9. Excess chemical potential - Wikipedia

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    Thus far we converted the excess chemical potential into an ensemble average, and the integral in the above equation can be sampled by the brute force Monte Carlo method. The calculating of excess chemical potential is not limited to homogeneous systems, but has also been extended to inhomogeneous systems by the Widom insertion method , or ...