Definition of Streamline flow

1. Noun. Flow of a gas or liquid in which the velocity at any point is relatively steady.

Specialized synonyms: Laminar Flow
Generic synonyms: Flow

Lexicographical Neighbors of Streamline Flow

streames
streamflow
streamflows
streamful
streamier
streamiest
streaminess
streaming
streamingly
streamings
streamless
streamlet
streamlets
streamlike
streamline
streamline flow (current term)
streamlined
streamliner
streamliners
streamlines
streamlining
streams
streamscape
streamscapes
streamside
streamsides
streamwater
streamwise
streamy
strech

Literary usage of Streamline flow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. ABC of Aviation: A Complete, Practical Treatise Outlining Clearly the by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"streamline flow: A term in hydromechanics to describe the condition of continuous flow of a fluid, as distinguished from eddying flow, where discontinuity ..."

2. The A-B-C of Aviation: A Complete, Practical Treatise Outlining Clearly the by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1918)
"STREAMLINE SHAPE : A shape intended to avoid eddying or discontinuity and to preserve streamline flow, thus keeping resistance to progress at a minimum. ..."

3. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"•streamline flow: A term in hydromechanics to describe the condition of continuous flow of a fluid, as distinguished from eddying flow where discontinuity ..."

4. Manual of Military Aviation by Hollis Leroy Müller (1917)
"'streamline flow: A term in hydromechanics to describe the condition of continuous flow of a fluid, as distinguished from eddying flow where discontinuity ..."

5. Airplane Characteristics: A Systematic Introduction for Flyer and Student by Frederick Bedell (1918)
"32 shows a strut more nearly conforming to streamline flow. Only a little is gained by tapering the front side of a cylinder or strut. ..."

6. Airplane Characteristics: A Systematic Introduction for Flyer and Student by Frederick Bedell (1918)
"32 shows a strut more nearly conforming to streamline flow. Only a little is gained by tapering the front side of a cylinder or strut. ..."

7. Airscrews in Theory and Experiment by Arthur Fage (1920)
"With the outflowing stream. however, the conditions for streamline flow—it is here assumed that a streamline flow is one in which the sum of the velocity ..."

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