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flow velocity  

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  • In continuum mechanics the flow velocity in fluid dynamics, also macroscopic velocity in statistical mechanics, or drift velocity in electromagnetism, is a vector field used to mathematically describe the motion of a continuum. The length of the flow velocity vector is the flow speed and is a scalar. It is also called velocity field; when evaluated along a line, it is called a velocity profile (as in, e.g., law of the wall). (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_velocity)

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  • flow speed

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