Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Laminar Flow
Note to Becky from Norm
The effect of the milk splashing onto the side of the car was a great example of "laminar flow". Remember this when you take physics (and next time you dump something out of a moving car).

Here is a more wordy definition:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laminar flow, sometimes known as streamline flow, is when a fluid flows in parallel layers, with no disruption between the layers. In fluid dynamics, laminar flow is a flow regime characterized by high momentum diffusion, low momentum convection, and pressure and velocity independence from time. It is the opposite of turbulent flow. The (dimensionless) Reynolds number characterizes whether flow conditions lead to laminar or turbulent flow.

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