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    A jet is a stream of fluid that is projected into a surrounding medium, usually from some kind of a nozzle, aperture or orifice. Jets can travel long...
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    Jet propulsion is the propulsion of an object in one direction, produced by ejecting a jet of fluid in the opposite direction. By Newton's third law,...
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    valves are not considered or referred to as fluidic devices. A jet of fluid can be deflected by a weaker jet striking it at the side. This provides nonlinear...
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    the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface. Merriam-Webster describes it as "the tendency of a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice...
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  • Look up Jet or jet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jet, Jets, or The Jet(s) may refer to: Jet aircraft, an aircraft propelled by jet engines Jet airliner...
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    Nozzle (redirect from Jet (nozzle))
    velocity of fluid increases at the expense of its pressure energy. Look up nozzle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A gas jet, fluid jet, or hydro jet is a...
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    used jet injector in the world, the Ped-O-Jet, sucked fluid back into the gun. "After injections, they [CDC] observed fluid remaining on the Ped-O-Jet nozzle...
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    Injector (redirect from Steam jet ejector)
    high-pressure fluid in such a way that a lower pressure fluid is entrained in the jet and carried through a duct to a region of higher pressure. It is a fluid-dynamic...
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  • An air-jet loom is a shuttleless loom that uses a jet of air to propel the weft yarn through the warp shed. It is one of two types of fluid-jet looms,...
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  • In fluid dynamics, a synthetic jet flow—is a type of jet flow, which is made up of the surrounding fluid. Synthetic jets are produced by periodic ejection...
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    energy between a rotor and a fluid, including both turbines and compressors. While a turbine transfers energy from a fluid to a rotor, a compressor transfers...
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    stators or with valves that can bleed fluid from the main flow between stages (inter-stage bleed). Modern jet engines use a series of compressors, running...
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    Charcoal lighter fluid is a flammable fluid used to accelerate the ignition of charcoal in a barbecue grill. It can either be petroleum based (e.g., mineral...
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  • working fluid (liquid or gaseous) flows through a jet nozzle into a tube that first narrows and then expands in cross-sectional area. The fluid leaving...
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    Hydrostatics (redirect from Fluid statics)
    jet of fluid being fed by a reservoir of fluid. The fountain is constructed in such a way that the height of the jet exceeds the height of the fluid in...
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    approach to jet packs where water is used as a high-density propulsion fluid. This requires a very large mass of fluid that makes a self-contained jet pack infeasible...
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    A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion. While this...
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    plumes or buoyant jets. "Buoyancy is defined as being positive" when, in the absence of other forces or initial motion, the entering fluid would tend to rise...
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    Torricelli's law (category Fluid dynamics)
    The lower a jet is on the tube, the more powerful it is. The fluid exit velocity is greater further down the tube. The outflowing jet forms a downward...
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  • mixture. Jet fires are a significant hazard in process and storage plant handling or storing flammable fluids under pressure, as the heat flux of the jet flame...
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    Gimbaled engine(s) or nozzle(s) Reactive fluid injection Auxiliary "Vernier" thrusters Exhaust vanes, also known as jet vanes Thrust vectoring for many liquid...
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    is also used by the Tomahawk jet-powered subsonic cruise missile. JPTS was a combination of LF-1 charcoal lighter fluid and an additive to improve thermal...
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  • Plateau–Rayleigh instability (category Fluid dynamics)
    branch of fluid dynamics concerned with fluid thread breakup. This fluid instability is exploited in the design of a particular type of ink jet technology...
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    A high pressure jet is a stream of pressurized fluid that is released from an environment at a significantly higher pressure than ambient pressure from...
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    physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids — liquids and gases. It has several...
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    A water jet cutter, also known as a water jet or waterjet, is an industrial tool capable of cutting a wide variety of materials using an extremely high-pressure...
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    circulating fluidized bed (CFB). Atmospheric fluidized beds use limestone or dolomite to capture sulfur released by the combustion of coal. Jets of air suspend...
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    In geotechnical engineering, drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, is used to aid the drilling of boreholes into the earth. Used while drilling...
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    Vortex (category Fluid dynamics)
    In fluid dynamics, a vortex (pl.: vortices or vortexes) is a region in a fluid in which the flow revolves around an axis line, which may be straight or...
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    Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF; also known as AUS 32 and marketed as AdBlue) is a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine...
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