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  2. Pressure prism - Wikipedia

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    Hydrostatic pressure is the pressure exerted by a fluid at rest – for example, on the sides of a swimming pool, a glass of water or the bottom of the ocean. Its value at any given location within the fluid is the product of the fluid density ( ρ ), the depth ( d ), and the forces applied by gravity ( g ) plus any background pressures, such ...

  3. Open-channel flow - Wikipedia

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    The depth changes abruptly over a comparatively short distance. Rapidly varied flow is known as a local phenomenon. Examples are the hydraulic jump and the hydraulic drop. Gradually-varied flow. The depth changes over a long distance. Continuous flow. The discharge is constant throughout the reach of the channel under consideration. This is ...

  4. Hydrostatics - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, hydrostatic pressure in blood vessels is the pressure of the blood against the wall. It is the opposing force to oncotic pressure . In capillaries, hydrostatic pressure (also known as capillary blood pressure) is higher than the opposing “colloid osmotic pressure” in blood—a “constant” pressure primarily produced by ...

  5. Hydrostatic stress - Wikipedia

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    A specialized case of hydrostatic stress contains isotropic compressive stress, which changes only in volume, but not in shape. [1] Pure hydrostatic stress can be experienced by a point in a fluid such as water. It is often used interchangeably with "mechanical pressure" and is also known as confining stress, particularly in the field of ...

  6. Communicating vessels - Wikipedia

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    A set of communicating vessels Animation showing the filling of communicating vessels. Communicating vessels or communicating vases [1] are a set of containers containing a homogeneous fluid and connected sufficiently far below the top of the liquid: when the liquid settles, it balances out to the same level in all of the containers regardless of the shape and volume of the containers.

  7. Shallow water equations - Wikipedia

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    Once a solution (i.e. the horizontal velocities and free surface displacement) has been found, the vertical velocity can be recovered via the continuity equation. Situations in fluid dynamics where the horizontal length scale is much greater than the vertical length scale are common, so the shallow-water equations are widely applicable.

  8. Tait equation - Wikipedia

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    where is the hydrostatic pressure in addition to the atmospheric one, is the volume at atmospheric pressure, is the volume under additional pressure , and , are experimentally determined parameters. A very detailed historical study on the Tait equation with the physical interpretation of the two parameters A {\displaystyle A} and Π ...

  9. Derivation of the Navier–Stokes equations - Wikipedia

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    For a fluid at rest, ∇ ⋅ τ must be zero (so that hydrostatic pressure results). The above list states the classic argument [5] that the shear strain rate tensor (the (symmetric) shear part of the velocity gradient) is a pure shear tensor and does not include any inflow/outflow part (any compression/expansion part).