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Fluid Mechanics

Fluid Mechanics

A foundational force of nature.

Fluid mechanics is a branch of mechanics that addresses with the properties of fluids in various states and their reaction to forces acting upon them. Drawing heavily on physics and mathematics, the field has a wide range of applications in the field of mechanical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, geophysics, astrophysics, and biology.

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