The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness":...
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the apparent viscosity is constant, and equal to the Newtonian viscosity of the fluid, but for non-Newtonian fluids, the apparent viscosity depends on the...
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The viscosity index (VI) is an arbitrary, unit-less measure of a fluid's change in viscosity relative to temperature change. It is mostly used to characterize...
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In mathematics, the viscosity solution concept was introduced in the early 1980s by Pierre-Louis Lions and Michael G. Crandall as a generalization of...
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Viscosity depends strongly on temperature. In liquids it usually decreases with increasing temperature, whereas, in most gases, viscosity increases with...
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Volume viscosity (also called bulk viscosity, or second viscosity or, dilatational viscosity) is a material property relevant for characterizing fluid...
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Intrinsic viscosity [ η ] {\displaystyle \left[\eta \right]} is a measure of a solute's contribution to the viscosity η {\displaystyle \eta } of a solution...
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Motor oil (redirect from Sae viscosity number)
antiwear additives, detergents, dispersants, and, for multi-grade oils, viscosity index improvers.[citation needed] The main function of motor oil is to...
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Newtonian fluid (redirect from Newton's law of viscosity)
describe the viscous stress and the strain rate are related by a constant viscosity tensor that does not depend on the stress state and velocity of the flow...
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In object oriented programming, viscosity refers to the ease at which a developer can add design-preserving code to a system. If it is easier to add a...
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