Outline of fluid dynamics

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to fluid dynamics:

Below is a structured list of topics in fluid dynamics.

What type of thing is fluid dynamics?
Fluid dynamics can be described as all of the following:
 * An academic discipline – one with academic departments, curricula and degrees; national and international societies; and specialized journals.
 * A scientific field (a branch of science) – widely recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer-reviewed research is published.
 * A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific methods.
 * A physical science – one that studies non-living systems.
 * A branch of physics – study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force.
 * A branch of mechanics – area of mathematics and physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among physical objects.
 * A branch of continuum mechanics – subject that models matter without using the information that it is made out of atoms; that is, it models matter from a macroscopic viewpoint rather than from microscopic.
 * A subdiscipline of fluid mechanics – branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.
 * A biological science – field that studies the role of physical processes in living organisms. For an example of a biological area involving fluid dynamics, see hemodynamics.

History of fluid dynamics
History of fluid dynamics

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Fluid dynamics research

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Fluid dynamics organizations

 * Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
 * Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Books on fluid dynamics

 * An Album of Fluid Motion (1982)
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Journals pertaining to fluid dynamics

 * Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
 * Journal of Fluid Mechanics
 * Physics of Fluids
 * Physical Review Fluids
 * Experiments in Fluids
 * European Journal of Mechanics B: Fluids
 * Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
 * Computers and Fluids
 * International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
 * Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Persons influential in fluid dynamics
Contributors to the field of fluid dynamics in turn come from a wide array of fields, and in addition to their other titles, each is also a fluid dynamicist. Following is a list of notable fluid dynamicists:



Miscellaneous concepts

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