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Continuum — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. The velocity field, arrows to scale. The same flow drawn as arrows. Scaled to the local speed the picture is honest and crowded; drawn all the same length it is legible and hides the very variation the figure is about.

    What a flow is

    A fluid is made of molecules and nobody models it that way. Treating it as a continuous field with a velocity at every point is an approximation, an extremely good one, and knowing why it works is knowing where it stops.

    part 1 · kinematics

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