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Parent topics
- Engineering [r]: The profession in which a knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to economically use the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. [e]
- Physics [r]: The study of forces and energies in space and time. [e]
Subtopics
- Aeronautic engineering [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aerospace engineering [r]: The branch of engineering that concerns aircraft, spacecraft, and related topics. [e]
- Chemical engineering [r]: The field of engineering that deals with industrial and natural processes involving the chemical, physical or biological transformation of matter or energy into forms useful for mankind, economically and safely without compromising the environment [e]
- Mechanical engineering [r]: The branch of engineering concerned with the utilisation of the basic laws of mathematics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and system dynamics in order to create unique solutions to physical problems. [e]
Other related topics
- Choked flow [r]: A limiting point for the flow of a gas which occurs under specific conditions when the gas flows through a restriction (such as a valve, a convergent-divergent nozzle, the hole in an orifice plate, or a leak in a gas pipeline or other gas container) into a lower pressure environment. [e]
- Compressible flow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Compressibility factor (gases) [r]: A thermodynamic property for modifying the ideal gas law to account for behavior of real gases. [e]
- Computational fluid dysnamics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Density(chemistry) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gas [r]: One of the major states of matter (i.e., gas, liquid, solid and plasma). [e]
- Gas compressor [r]: A machine that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. [e]
- Hydraulics [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Incompressible flow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pressure [r]: A ratio equal to the force applied perpendicular to the surface of the area divided by that area (force/area). [e]
- Pump [r]: A device used to move fluids, such as liquids or slurries, from a lower pressure to a higher pressure adding energy to the system to overcomes the difference in pressure. [e]
- Venturi effect [r]: Add brief definition or description
