Outline of fluid dynamics
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Short description: Aspects of fluid mechanics involving flow of fluids—liquids and gases
--> The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to fluid dynamics:
Below is a structured list of topics in fluid dynamics.
What type of thing is fluid dynamics?
Fluid dynamics can be described as all of the following:
- An academic discipline – one with academic departments, curricula and degrees; national and international societies; and specialized journals.
- A scientific field (a branch of science) – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer-reviewed research is published.
- A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
- A physical science – one that studies non-living systems.
- A branch of physics – study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
- A branch of mechanics – area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects.
- A branch of continuum mechanics – subject that models matter without using the information that it is made out of atoms; that is, it models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint rather than from microscopic.
- A subdiscipline of fluid mechanics – branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.
- A branch of continuum mechanics – subject that models matter without using the information that it is made out of atoms; that is, it models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint rather than from microscopic.
- A branch of mechanics – area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects.
- A branch of physics – study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
- A biological science – field that studies the role of physical processes in living organisms. For an example of a biological area involving fluid dynamics, see hemodynamics.
- A physical science – one that studies non-living systems.
- A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
Branches of fluid dynamics
- Acoustic theory
- Aerodynamics
- Aeroelasticity
- Aeronautics
- Astrophysical fluid dynamics
- Computational fluid dynamics – Analysis and solving of problems that involve fluid flows
- Flow measurement – Quantification of bulk fluid movement
- Geophysical fluid dynamics
- Hemodynamics
- Hydraulics
- Hydrology
- Hydrostatics
- Electrohydrodynamics
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Topological fluid dynamics
- Quantum hydrodynamics
History of fluid dynamics
History of fluid dynamics
Mathematical equations and concepts
- Airy wave theory
- Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation
- Boussinesq approximation (water waves) – Approximation valid for weakly non-linear and fairly long waves
- Boundary conditions in fluid dynamics
- Elementary flow
- Euler equations (fluid dynamics) – Set of quasilinear hyperbolic equations governing adiabatic and inviscid flow
- Helmholtz's theorems
- Kirchhoff equations
- Knudsen equation
- Manning equation
- Mild-slope equation – Physics phenomenon and formula
- Morison equation – Equation for force on an object in sea waves
- Navier–Stokes equations
- Oseen flow
- Poiseuille's law
- Pressure head
- Rayleigh's equation (fluid dynamics)
- Stokes stream function
- Stream function
- Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines
- Torricelli's Law
Types of fluid flow
- Aerodynamic force
- Convection
- Cavitation
- Compressible flow
- Couette flow
- Effusive limit
- Free molecular flow
- Incompressible flow
- Inviscid flow
- Isothermal flow
- Open channel flow
- Pipe flow
- Pressure-driven flow
- Secondary flow
- Stream thrust averaging – Process to convert 3D flow into 1D
- Superfluidity
- Transient flow
- Two-phase flow
Fluid properties
- List of hydrodynamic instabilities
- Newtonian fluid
- Non-Newtonian fluid
- Surface tension
- Vapour pressure
Fluid phenomena
- Balanced flow
- Boundary layer
- Coanda effect
- Convection cell
- Convergence/Bifurcation – Linear mapping permuting rectangles of the same area
- Darwin drift
- Drag (force)
- Droplet vaporization
- Hydrodynamic stability
- Kaye effect
- Lift (force)
- Magnus effect
- Ocean current
- Ocean surface waves
- Rossby wave – Inertial wave occurring in rotating fluids
- Shock wave
- Soliton
- Stokes drift
- Teapot effect
- Thread breakup
- Turbulent jet breakup
- Upstream contamination
- Venturi effect
- Vortex – Fluid flow revolving around an axis of rotation
- Water hammer
- Wave drag
- Wind
Concepts in aerodynamics
- Aileron
- Airplane
- Angle of attack
- Banked turn
- Bernoulli's principle – Principle relating to fluid dynamics
- Bilgeboard
- Boomerang
- Centerboard
- Chord (aircraft)
- Circulation control wing
- Currentology
- Diving plane
- Downforce
- Drag coefficient
- Fin
- Flipper (anatomy)
- Flow separation
- Foil (fluid mechanics)
- Fluid coupling
- Gas kinetics
- Hydrofoil
- Keel (hydrodynamic)
- Küssner effect
- Kutta condition
- Kutta–Joukowski theorem
- Lift coefficient
- Lift-induced drag
- Lift-to-drag ratio
- Lifting-line theory
- NACA airfoil
- Newton's third law
- Propeller
- Pump
- Rudder
- Sail (aerodynamics)
- Skeg
- Sound barrier
- Spoiler (automotive)
- Stall (flight)
- Supersonic flow over a flat plate
- Surfboard fin
- Surface science
- Torque converter
- Trim tab
- Wing
- Wingtip vortices
Fluid dynamics research
- Fluid dynamics journals
Methods used in fluid dynamics research
- Finite volume method for unsteady flow
- Flow visualization – Visualization technique in fluid dynamics
- Immersed boundary method
- Projection method (fluid dynamics) – Method for numerically solving time-dependent incompressible fluid-flow problems
- Seeding (fluid dynamics)
Tools used in fluid dynamics research
Applications of fluid dynamics
- Acoustics
- Aerodynamics
- Cryosphere science
- EFDC Explorer
- Fluidics
- Fluid power
- Geodynamics
- Hydraulic machinery
- Meteorology
- Naval architecture
- Oceanography
- Plasma physics
- Pneumatics
- 3D computer graphics – Graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data
Fluid dynamics organizations
- Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Fluid dynamics publications
Books on fluid dynamics
Journals pertaining to fluid dynamics
- Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
- Journal of Fluid Mechanics
- Physics of Fluids
- Physical Review Fluids
- Experiments in Fluids
- European Journal of Mechanics B: Fluids
- Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computers and Fluids
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
- Flow, Turbulence and Combustion
Persons influential in fluid dynamics
Contributors to the field of fluid dynamics in turn come from a wide array of fields, and in addition to their other titles, each is also a fluid dynamicist. Following is a list of notable fluid dynamicists:
- Snezhana Abarzhi
- John Abraham
- H. Norman Abramson
- David Acheson
- Andreas Acrivos
- Noreen Sher Akbar
- Silas D. Alben
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Hannes Alfvén
- John D. Anderson
- Elephter Andronikashvili
- Shelley Anna
- Archimedes
- Hassan Aref
- Vladimir Arnold
- Amedeo Avogadro
- Ralph Bagnold
- Boris Bakhmeteff
- Donát Bánki
- Grigory Barenblatt
- Dwight Barkley
- Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant
- Alfred Barnard Basset
- George Batchelor
- Harry Bateman
- Francine Battaglia
- Jurjen Battjes
- Henri-Émile Bazin
- James Thomas Beale
- Adrian Bejan
- Josette Bellan
- Henri Bénard
- Brooke Benjamin
- David Benney
- Frank H. Berkshire
- Natalia Berloff
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Johann Bernoulli
- Andrea Bertozzi
- W. H. Besant
- Albert Betz
- Eugene C. Bingham
- Jean-Baptiste Biot
- Robert Byron Bird
- Garrett Birkhoff
- Paul Richard Heinrich Blasius
- Tobias de Boer
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Wilfrid Noel Bond
- Joseph Valentin Boussinesq
- Robert Boyle
- Peter Bradshaw (aeronautical engineer)
- Francis Bretherton
- John D. Buckmaster
- Gerald Bull
- Jan Burgers
- Adolf Busemann
- Sébastien Candel
- Isabelle Cantat
- Silvana Cardoso
- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
- George F. Carrier
- Claudia Cenedese
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- Hubert Chanson
- Jacques Charles
- Jean-Yves Chemin
- Thomas H. Chilton
- Alexandre Chorin
- Demetrios Christodoulou
- Chia-Kun Chu
- Émile Clapeyron
- John Frederick Clarke
- Rudolf Clausius
- Paul Clavin
- Nicolas Clément
- Julian Cole
- Adrian Constantin
- Stanley Corrsin
- Maurice Couette
- Richard Courant
- David Crighton
- Mimi Dai
- Stuart Dalziel
- Gerhard Damköhler
- Henry Darcy
- Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
- Stephen H. Davis
- William Reginald Dean
- Lokenath Debnath
- Subhasish Dey
- Satish Dhawan
- Rudolf Diesel
- Ronald DiPerna
- Charles R. Doering
- David Dolidze
- Philip Drazin
- Hugh Latimer Dryden
- Elizabeth B. Dussan V.
- Ernst R. G. Eckert
- Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- Simen Ådnøy Ellingsen
- Loránd Eötvös
- Jerald Ericksen
- R. Cengiz Ertekin
- Leonhard Euler
- David Evans (mathematician)
- Amir Faghri
- Gino Girolamo Fanno
- Eduard Feireisl
- Antonio Ferri
- John Ffowcs Williams
- Bruce A. Finlayson
- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
- Emanuele Foà
- Hermann Föttinger
- Joseph Fourier
- James B. Francis
- David A. Frank-Kamenetskii
- François Frenkiel
- Uriel Frisch
- Robert Edmund Froude
- William Froude
- Mohamed Gad-el-Hak
- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
- Israel Gelfand
- William K. George
- Morteza Gharib
- Alan Jeffrey Giacomin
- Josiah Willard Gibbs
- Adrian Gill (meteorologist)
- Pierre-Simon Girard
- Hermann Glauert
- James Glimm
- Sergei Godunov
- Sydney Goldstein
- Alexander Gorlov
- Leo Graetz
- Franz Grashof
- Albert E. Green
- Harvey P. Greenspan
- Marina Guenza
- Max Gunzburger
- Wolfgang Haack
- Gotthilf Hagen
- Georg Hamel
- Thomas Henry Havelock
- Wallace D. Hayes
- Peter H. Haynes
- Werner Heisenberg
- Henry Selby Hele-Shaw
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- John Hinch (mathematician)
- Julius Oscar Hinze
- Hans G. Hornung
- Leslie Howarth
- Pierre Henri Hugoniot
- Herbert Huppert
- Fazle Hussain
- M. Yousuff Hussaini
- Caius Iacob
- Antony Jameson
- James Jeans
- George Barker Jeffery
- Daniel D. Joseph
- James Prescott Joule
- Viktor Kaplan
- Béla Karlovitz
- Theodore von Kármán
- Lord Kelvin
- Earle Hesse Kennard
- Gustav Kirchhoff
- Alexander Kiselev (mathematician)
- Martin Knudsen
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Ludwig Kort
- Diederik Korteweg
- Leslie Stephen George Kovasznay
- Robert Kraichnan
- Martin Kutta
- Olga Ladyzhenskaya
- Paco Lagerstrom
- Horace Lamb
- Lev Landau
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Boris Laschka
- Brian Launder
- Gustaf de Laval
- Chung K. Law
- Peter Lax
- L. Gary Leal
- Leonid Leibenson
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Tullio Levi-Civita
- Veniamin Levich
- Bernard Lewis (scientist)
- Warren K. Lewis
- Paul A. Libby
- Wolfgang Liebe
- Hans W. Liepmann
- Evgeny Lifshitz
- Edwin N. Lightfoot
- James Lighthill
- Chia-Chiao Lin
- Amable Liñán
- Paul Linden
- Anke Lindner
- Michael S. Longuet-Higgins
- Lu Shijia
- Geoffrey S. S. Ludford
- John L. Lumley
- Thomas S. Lundgren
- Ernst Mach
- Charles L. Mader
- Andrew Majda
- Carlo Marangoni
- Frank E. Marble
- Moshe Matalon (engineer)
- Tony Maxworthy
- John B. McCormick
- Trevor McDougall
- Beverley McKeon
- Chiang C. Mei
- Charles Meneveau
- Theodor Meyer
- Anthony Michell
- John W. Miles
- Laura Miller (mathematical biologist)
- L. M. Milne-Thomson
- Richard von Mises
- Keith Moffatt
- Parviz Moin
- Andrei Monin
- Lewis Ferry Moody
- Rose Morton
- Samar Mubarakmand
- Walter Munk
- Morris Muskat
- Roddam Narasimha
- Claude-Louis Navier
- Paul Neményi
- John von Neumann
- Isaac Newton
- Nhan Phan-Thien
- Wilhelm Nusselt
- Morrough Parker O'Brien
- John Ockendon
- Hisashi Okamoto
- Steven Orszag
- Carl Wilhelm Oseen
- Simon Ostrach
- Mariolina Padula
- Stoycho Panchev
- Blaise Pascal
- Jean Claude Eugène Péclet
- Tim Pedley
- Joseph Pedlosky
- Lester Allan Pelton
- Stanford S. Penner
- Howell Peregrine
- Adriana Pesci
- Charles S. Peskin
- Norbert Peters (engineer)
- Henri Pitot
- Joseph Plateau
- Milton S. Plesset
- Henri Poincaré
- Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
- Siméon Denis Poisson
- Stephen B. Pope
- Constantine Pozrikidis
- Ludwig Prandtl
- Andrea Prosperetti
- Joseph Proudman
- Seth Putterman
- William Rankine
- John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
- Theodor Rehbock
- Markus Reiner
- Osborne Reynolds
- William Craig Reynolds
- Dimitri Riabouchinsky
- Lewis Fry Richardson
- Robert D. Richtmyer
- Norman Riley (professor)
- Petre Roman
- Louis Rosenhead
- Anatol Roshko
- Carl-Gustaf Rossby
- Hunter Rouse
- John Scott Russell
- Philip Saffman
- Stephen Salter
- Ralph Allan Sampson
- Hermann Schlichting
- James Serrin
- Tasneem M. Shah
- P. N. Shankar
- Ascher H. Shapiro
- Beverley Shenstone
- Thomas Kilgore Sherwood
- Albert F. Shields
- Max Shiffman
- Wei Shyy
- Gregory Sivashinsky
- Apollo M. O. Smith
- Frank T. Smith
- Arnold Sommerfeld
- Andrew Soward
- Brian Spalding
- Ephraim M. Sparrow
- Charles Speziale
- Herbert Squire
- K. R. Sreenivasan
- Paul H. Steen
- Josef Stefan
- Keith Stewartson
- Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
- Yvonne Stokes
- Howard A. Stone
- Vincenc Strouhal
- John Trevor Stuart
- G. I. Taylor
- Roger Temam
- Hendrik Tennekes
- Walter Tollmien
- Albert Alan Townsend
- David Tritton
- Viktor Trkal
- Clifford Truesdell
- Gretar Tryggvason
- Ernie Tuck
- Laurette Tuckerman
- Stewart Turner
- Fritz Ursell
- Victor Vâlcovici
- Milton Van Dyke
- Henri Villat
- Ricardo Vinuesa
- Gustav de Vries
- John V. Wehausen
- Julius Weisbach
- Karl Weissenberg
- Richard T. Whitcomb
- Frank M. White
- Gerald B. Whitham
- Forman A. Williams
- John R. Womersley
- Theodore Y. Wu
- Akiva Yaglom
- Chia-Shun Yih
- Z. Jane Wang
- Yakov Zeldovich
- Yuwen Zhang
- Nikolay Zhukovsky (scientist)
Miscellaneous concepts
- These topics need placement in the sections above, or in new sections.
- Beta plane
- Bridge scour
- Isosurface – Surface representing points of constant value within a volume
- Keulegan–Carpenter number
- Entrance length (fluid dynamics)
- Modon (fluid dynamics)
- Shock (fluid dynamics)
- Eddy (fluid dynamics)
- Non ideal compressible fluid dynamics
- Plume (fluid dynamics)
- Stall (fluid dynamics)
See also
References
External links
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