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The term ‘fluid’ will be used here in the ordinary sense, i.e., a material medium that is continuously deformable, has very little cohesion between its different particles, and may be compressible or incompressible. The material may totally or partially take the shape of its container. The concept of a continuum is also implied. This means that the pressure, temperature, and density vary continuously from point to point. Hydrodynamics is the study of such a system.
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Wilkins, M.L. (1999). Elements of Fluid Mechanics. In: Computer Simulation of Dynamic Phenomena. Scientific Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03885-7_1
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