How to Use fluid mechanics in a Sentence
fluid mechanics
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Ellingsen's focus was on a concept in fluid mechanics known as shear flow.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2019
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Fire ants seem to have found the best use for this property of fluid mechanics—sticking together to save their own lives.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2022
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For fluid mechanics expert and first author Siddhartha Verma, the study is a visual reminder: people should wear masks that will prevent the droplets in their breath from spreading.
—Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2020
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That’s been the case recently with the mathematical study of fluid mechanics.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
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The fluid mechanics of the lava lamp don’t get nearly enough appreciation.
—Diana Budds, Curbed, 24 Sep. 2021
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The research, published this month in the journal Scientific Reports, was strictly an exploration in fluid mechanics.
—Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
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These observations are analyzed from the dynamical systems and fluid mechanics viewpoints as well as with the help of a model developed here.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2015
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For example, researchers have a limited understanding of the physics of fluid mechanics.
—Conor Purcell, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2019
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My own study of baseball aerodynamics began as a trap meant to lure my undergraduate students toward the beauty of fluid mechanics.
—Jenn Stroud Rossmann, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
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The feminist writer Luce Irigaray, for example, argued that in physics, solid mechanics was a masculine way of looking at the world while fluid mechanics was a feminine one.
—Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
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The project was led by then-graduate student Dixia Fan, who was automating experiments in fluid mechanics to get work done more efficiently.
—Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
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This traditional model suffers from a dual constraint issue, said Jonathan Boreyko, a fluid mechanics professor at Virginia Tech and another co-author of the study.
—Elise Takahama, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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Crimaldi’s fluid mechanics lab has an annual summer tradition of taking a week to tackle a bite-sized scientific challenge, without funding or any pressure to publish.
—Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2022
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Scientists whose interests in insects and fluid mechanics intersect have been wondering how fire ants stick together in water.
—Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 16 Sep. 2022
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His colleague Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, a professor of experimental fluid mechanics at the University of Southampton and co-author on the paper, said that the back flipper scavenges the energy coming from the front flipper’s vortices.
—Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2017
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Tiba-Vent makes use of the principles of ventilation, fluid mechanics, control engineering, software engineering, and signal processing.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2020
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The award will fund research that examines how computationally intensive engineering and physics problems can be solved more quickly using new types of analog computers for electromagnetic, magnetohydrodynamic and fluid mechanic applications.
—Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 11 June 2017
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