viscous instability
1Plateau-Rayleigh instability — The Plateau Rayleigh instability, often just called the Rayleigh instability , explains why and how a falling stream of fluid breaks up into smaller packets with the same volume but less surface area. It is related to the Rayleigh–Taylor… …
2D'Alembert's paradox — In fluid dynamics, d Alembert s paradox (or the hydrodynamic paradox) is a contradiction reached in 1752 by French mathematician Jean le Rond d Alembert.[1] D Alembert proved that – for incompressible and inviscid potential flow – the drag force… …
3Fluid dynamics — Continuum mechanics …
4geomagnetic field — Magnetic field associated with the Earth. It is essentially dipolar (i.e., it has two poles, the northern and southern magnetic poles) on the Earth s surface. Away from the surface, the field becomes distorted. Most geomagnetists explain the… …
5Accretion disc — An accretion disc (or accretion disk) is a structure (often a circumstellar disk) formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a central body. The central body is typically either a young star, a protostar, a white dwarf, a neutron star,… …
6Gyro monorail — The gyro monorail, gyroscopic monorail, gyro stabilized monorail, or gyrocar all denote a single rail land vehicle, road or rail, which uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel, which is forced to precess, to overcome the inherent inverted… …
7Orr–Sommerfeld equation — The Orr–Sommerfeld equation, in fluid dynamics, is an eigenvalue equation describing the linear two dimensional modes of disturbance to a viscous parallel flow. The solution to the Navier–Stokes equations for a parallel, laminar flow can become… …
8Reynolds number — In fluid mechanics and heat transfer, the Reynolds number mathrm{Re} is a dimensionless number that gives a measure of the ratio of inertial forces ({old mathrm V} ho) to viscous forces (mu / L) and, consequently, it quantifies the relative… …
9Nebular hypothesis — Star formation Interstellar medium Molecular cloud …
10Taylor number — In fluid dynamics, the Taylor number is a dimensionless quantity that characterizes the importance of centrifugal forces or so called inertial forces due to rotation of a fluid about a vertical axis, relative to viscous forces. The typical… …
