Fundamentals
This quantity, which can be expressed as Force per Unit Area, drives fluid flow
What is pressure?
This type of flow occurs at low Reynolds numbers, where the velocity profile takes the shape of a parabola
What is laminar flow?
The layer of fluid in the immediate vicinity of a bounding surface where the effects of viscosity are significant (don't overthink it)
What is a boundary layer?
This method is commonly used to calculate non-dimensional groups
What is the Buckingham-Pi method?
This NBA team holds the record for most wins in a regular season, with 73
Who are the Golden State Warriors?
For these types of fluids, we can assert that del (dot) rho = 0.
What are incompressible (constant-density, newtonian) fluids?
A line along which the flow of a moving fluid is least turbulent
What is a streamline?
A turbulent boundary layer contains swirling of a fluid and its reverse current, known as this
What is an eddy?
This equation, named after a famous Swiss mathematician, is a specific case of the generalized macroscopic energy balance
What is the (engineering) Bernoulli equation?
This rule prohibits a player from taking an excessively long time to inbound the ball
What is the 5-second (inbound) rule?
These set of governing equations are used to describe momentum transport in any system.
What are the Cauchy momentum equations? (Note N-S is a simplification that assumes incompressible)
Steady, laminar flow of a viscous fluid between two horizontal (stationary) parallel plates separated by a distance
What is plate poiseuille flow?
The thickness of a momentum boundary layer is related to this dimensionless number
What is the Reynolds number?
A dimensionless quantity that is used to quantify the resistance an object faces in a fluid environment
What is the drag coefficient?
This player is the NBA's all-time leader in 3-point baskets made
Who is Ray Allen?
This common boundary condition asserts that the velocity of a fluid along a stationary surface is zero.
What is the no-slip boundary condition?
Drag-induced flow between two concentric infinitely long cylinders that rotate is an example of this type of flow
What is Couette Flow?
This parameter, the tangential force per unit area that is exerted by the flowing fluid on some surface, is of interest when dealing with boundary layers
What is (wall) shear stress?
This dimensionless quantity measures the ratio of inertia forces to gravitational forces
What is the Froude number?
The sport of basketball was founded by this Canadian-American physical educator in 1891
Who is James Naismith?
This quantity represents the loss of pressure of a fluid in a pipe due to the interactions in between the fluid and the pipe.
What is the friction factor?
This type of flow around an object occurs when the Reynolds number is low, i.e. inertial forces are small compared with viscous forces
What is creeping/Stokes flow? (The other case, when viscous forces are negligible, is called potential or inviscid flow)
For turbulent flows, this method decomposes instantaneous flow properties into a mean and fluctuating component with the assumption that the mean of the fluctuating component is always zero
What is the Reynolds decomposition? (it's a mathematical technique used to separate the expectation value of a quantity from its fluctuations)
What is 2100 and 4000? (Re<2100 = Laminar, Re>4000 = Turbulent, in-between = transition regime)
The NBA 3-point line is this far from the basket (an answer that falls within the correct range will be accepted, since it's not a constant distance)
What is between 22 feet and 23 feet, 9 inches (inclusive)?