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viscous dissipation

(fluid KE converted to heat due to viscosity)

Viscous dissipation is an aspect of fluid dynamics: the drag due to viscosity (the tendency of moving fluid to drag along adjacent fluid), force which slows down (dissipates) fluid flows, producing heat, i.e., converting kinetic energy to heat energy. A term to represent the effect can be included in fluid dynamic equations, such as the Navier-Stokes equations.


(physics,fluid dynamics,energy)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscosity
https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Dissipation
https://www.ryantoomey.org/wiki/Viscous_dissipation
https://astro.pas.rochester.edu/~aquillen/ast242/lecturenotes3.pdf
https://websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~fnimmo/website/viscous_flow.pdf
https://web2.clarkson.edu/projects/subramanian/ch560/notes/Viscous%20Dissipation.pdf

Referenced by pages:
alpha disk
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
Darcy velocity field
dead zone
Navier-Stokes equations (NS equations)
superfluid
theory of figures (TOF)
tidal Q

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