Flow velocity

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  • Flow Velocity
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  • Flow velocity is the speed at which a fluid flows.
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Abstract from DBPedia
    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).

    連続体力学において、流速（英: macroscopic velocity, flow velocity（流体力学）, drift velocity（電磁気学））とは、連続体の運動を数学的に記述するためベクトル場である。流速ベクトルの絶対値はflow speedと呼ばれ、スカラー量である。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Flow_velocity)