In fluid dynamics, potential flow or irrotational flow refers to a description of a fluid flow with no vorticity in it. Such a description typically arises...

this way is called potential flow. In potential-flow theory, the flow is assumed to be incompressible. Incompressible potential-flow theory has the advantage...

relation of the potential to the flow velocity is unaffected by this transformation: ∇Φ = ∇φ. The Bernoulli equation for unsteady potential flow also appears...

d'Alembert. D'Alembert proved that – for incompressible and inviscid potential flow – the drag force is zero on a body moving with constant velocity relative...

field to be the velocity potential ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } which is both irrotational and incompressible. Irrotational flow is a flow where the vorticity,...

Magnus effect. Potential flow is a mathematical model of the steady flow of a fluid with no viscosity or vorticity present. For potential flow around a circular...

In fluid dynamics, aerodynamic potential flow codes or panel codes are used to determine the fluid velocity, and subsequently the pressure distribution...

which are at constant values of potential or hydraulic head (upstream and downstream ends), and the other surfaces are no-flow boundaries (i.e., impermeable;...

In mathematics, potential flow around a circular cylinder is a classical solution for the flow of an inviscid, incompressible fluid around a cylinder that...

surface than on the lower surface. In some situations (e.g., inviscid potential flow) the lift force can be related directly to the average top/bottom velocity...

For two-dimensional potential flow, streamlines are perpendicular to equipotential lines. Taken together with the velocity potential, the stream function...

potential (positive vector). If the flow is not restricted, water will move from an area of higher water potential to an area that is lower potential...

field. A flow in a simply-connected domain which is irrotational can be described as a potential flow, through the use of a velocity potential Φ , {\displaystyle...

Csíkszentmihályi lists as being a part of the flow experience: Immediate feedback Feeling the potential to succeed Feeling so engrossed in the experience...

A velocity potential is a scalar potential used in potential flow theory. It was introduced by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1788. It is used in continuum mechanics...

describe the flow everywhere. Such flows are called potential flows, because the velocity field may be expressed as the gradient of a potential energy expression...

and the presence of a separated flow region between the shear layer and surface modifies the outside potential flow and pressure field. In the case of...

context of potential theory), elementary flows are basic flows that can be combined, using various techniques, to construct more complex flows. In this...

flow discovered by Scottish physicist and engineer William Rankine that is formed when a fluid source is added to a fluid undergoing potential flow....

the flow is inviscid, incompressible and irrotational. This case is called potential flow and allows the differential equations that describe the flow to...

heavy use. Developers turned to Full Potential codes, as panel methods could not calculate the non-linear flow present at transonic speeds. The first...

reversal potential is the membrane potential at which the direction of ionic current reverses. At the reversal potential, there is no net flow of ions...

flow of a superfluid is inviscid. Inviscid flows are broadly classified into potential flows (or, irrotational flows) and rotational inviscid flows....

guided by separatrices. The flow in the neighborhood of the stagnation point or line can generally be described using potential flow theory, although viscous...

In financial accounting, a cash flow statement, also known as statement of cash flows, is a financial statement that shows how changes in balance sheet...

A receptor potential is often produced by sensory transduction. It is generally a depolarizing event resulting from inward current flow. The influx of...

the Laplace equation, which is a form of potential flow and has analogs in numerous fields. The groundwater flow equation is often derived for a small representative...

circulation of the flow around the airfoil must be that value which would cause the Kutta condition to exist. Applying 2-D potential flow, if an airfoil with...

{\displaystyle xy} -plane thus correspond to potential flow (irrotational flow). Unlike potential flow, here the circulation Γ {\displaystyle \Gamma...

and Lord Rayleigh in 1916. Consider a steady potential flow that is characterized by the velocity potential φ ( x ) . {\displaystyle \varphi (\mathbf {x}...