incompressible
Example Sentences
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"And what we found was that at Mach 6, the turbulence behavior is pretty close to the incompressible flow."
From Science Daily
Water and air are, to a good approximation, incompressible fluids, and the Navier-Stokes equations are used to design airplane wings and to model weather patterns and ocean currents.
From New York Times
As the science fiction author Ted Chiang writes, "experience is algorithmically incompressible."
From Salon
Most hydraulic tools utilize incompressible fluid, or fluid at maximum density, in order to create the necessary pressure for separating large portions of a vehicle.
From Fox News
In the early years of the 20th century, several British scientists advanced technical, mathematical accounts of lift that treated air as a perfect fluid, meaning that it was incompressible and had zero viscosity.
From Scientific American
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