hydrodynamics
/ˌhʌɪdrə(ʊ)dʌɪˈnamɪks
/plural noun [treated as singular]
The branch of science concerned with forces acting on or exerted by fluids (especially liquids).Sailing is one of those sports which involves hydrodynamics, fluid dynamics, material science, human physiology, tactics, psychology....
- Jeffrey's work was on the applications of mathematics, in particular he worked on hydrodynamics, viscous liquids and elasticity.
- Current research focuses on the forces that act on a body moving through the water, the science of hydrodynamics.
Derivatives
hydrodynamic
/ adjective ...- Damping and correcting forces may be hydrostatic or hydrodynamic.
- Meanwhile, hydrodynamic lubrication in plain bearings and piston rings can be analysed in seconds.
- Earlier books described it as a hydrodynamic system or a steam engine.
hydrodynamical
- In 1847-49 he collaborated with Stokes on hydrodynamical studies, which Thomson applied to electrical and atomic theory.
- The detailed problem of how galaxies form is also unsolved because of the complex hydrodynamical and radiative processes involved with the motion of gas and the formation of stars.
- Her work focuses on the hydrodynamical and orbital motions of a group of astronomical objects.
hydrodynamicist
- His own advisor does not seem to have been of direct help, nor was there an expert hydrodynamicist at Yale.
- The Hydrogen and metallic emission lines provide invaluable information to allow hydrodynamicists to model this flow.
- As a hydrodynamicist he was among the first to develop a numerical code for ocean wave diffraction around large objects in the sea.
Origin
Late 18th century: from modern Latin hydrodynamica, from Greek hudro- 'water' + dunamikos (see dynamic).