Re: FLOW?

[Brian Whatcott <betwys@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

I'll be glad to be the straight man for this question.
Flow is the measure of some [specified or implied]
quantity or character of interest with time.
Hence mass flow, volume flow, cash flow,
  work flow (=power?), ..er..  heat flow?

Brian Whatcott    Altus OK

At 07:07 AM 5/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> FLOW is defined as the integral of F dot T ds where F is a velocity
> field and T is the unit vector tangent to the path being taken.
>
> My question is, from more of a Physics point of view, what are the units
> of Flow typically?  What is Flow really measuring?
> I believe I need a way of thinking about what this definition is really
> saying and what it is really calculating.
>
> Any help would be truly appreciated.
>
>    David Abineri
>
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> David Abineri
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