• The NavierStokes equations (/nævˈjeɪ stoʊks/ nav-YAY STOHKS) are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances...
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  • the equations, such as NavierStokes existence and smoothness, is one of the important unsolved problems in mathematics. The NavierStokes equations are...
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    of the NavierStokes equations. In this case the NavierStokes equations reduce to the vorticity-transport equations. The NavierStokes equations are nonlinear...
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  • Reynolds-averaged NavierStokes equations (RANS equations) are time-averaged equations of motion for fluid flow. The idea behind the equations is Reynolds decomposition...
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  • mechanics, non-dimensionalization of the NavierStokes equations is the conversion of the NavierStokes equation to a nondimensional form. This technique...
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  • Knudsen numbers. The NavierStokes equations (named after Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes) are differential equations that describe the force...
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    mechanics. The NavierStokes equations refer eponymously to him, with George Gabriel Stokes. After the death of his father in 1793, Navier's mother left...
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  • Hagen–Poiseuille flow. The equations governing the Hagen–Poiseuille flow can be derived directly from the NavierStokes momentum equations in 3D cylindrical coordinates...
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    which has an exact closed form solution of the incompressible NavierStokes equations in Cartesian coordinates. It is named after the British physicist...
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  • pressure-stabilizing Petrov–Galerkin formulation for incompressible NavierStokes equations can be used for finite element computations of high Reynolds number...
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    Reynolds-averaged NavierStokes equations. And if F {\displaystyle F} is a density-weighted ensemble-average one obtains the Favre-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. As...
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    well through the use of the NavierStokes equations. Direct numerical simulation (DNS), based on the NavierStokes equations, makes it possible to simulate...
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  • problems, the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture, NavierStokes existence and smoothness, P versus NP problem, Riemann hypothesis, Yang–Mills...
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    regarded as a particularly simple equilibrium solution of the NavierStokes equations. By plugging the energy–momentum tensor for a perfect fluid T μ...
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  • derived by George Gabriel Stokes in 1851 by solving the Stokes flow limit for small Reynolds numbers of the NavierStokes equations. The force of viscosity...
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    l^{2}\sigma } . The Weber number appears in the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations through a free surface boundary condition. For a fluid of constant...
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  • Gabriel Stokes published another important set of equations, today known as the Navier-Stokes equations. Claude-Louis Navier developed the equations first...
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    hydrodynamic stability. These include Reynolds number, the Euler equations, and the NavierStokes equations. When studying flow stability it is useful to understand...
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    polymers generally. The equations of motion for Stokes flow, called the Stokes equations, are a linearization of the NavierStokes equations, and thus can be...
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  • root-mean-square (RMS) velocity fluctuations. In the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations, the turbulence kinetic energy can be calculated based on the closure...
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  • solving incompressible NavierStokes equations. The incompressible Navier-Stokes equation (differential form of momentum equation) may be written as ∂ u...
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  • dynamics (CFD) methods for fluid simulation. Instead of solving the NavierStokes equations directly, a fluid density on a lattice is simulated with streaming...
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    after Sir George Stokes. This is considered one of the simplest unsteady problems that has an exact solution for the NavierStokes equations. In turbulent...
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    momentum equation can be derived from the NavierStokes equations that describe fluid motion. The x-component of the NavierStokes equations – when expressed...
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    Physics-informed neural networks (category Differential equations)
    described by partial differential equations. For example, the NavierStokes equations are a set of partial differential equations derived from the conservation...
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    Lucasian Professor. As a physicist, Stokes made seminal contributions to fluid mechanics, including the NavierStokes equations; and to physical optics, with...
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  • tensor in a fluid obtained from the averaging operation over the NavierStokes equations to account for turbulent fluctuations in fluid momentum. The velocity...
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  • Leray projection (category Differential equations)
    the pressure term and the divergence-free term in the Stokes equations and NavierStokes equations. Source: For vector fields u {\displaystyle \mathbf {u}...
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    Olga Ladyzhenskaya (category Partial differential equation theorists)
    worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite-difference method for the NavierStokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold...
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  • Stokes equation may refer to: the Airy equation the equations of Stokes flow, a linearised form of the NavierStokes equations in the limit of small Reynolds...
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