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Flow velocity

Vector field which is used to mathematically describe the motion of a continuum

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2025
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In continuum mechanics the flow velocity in fluid dynamics, also macroscopic velocity in statistical mechanics, or drift velocity in electromagnetism, is a vector field used to mathematically describe the motion of a continuum. The length of the flow velocity vector is scalar, the flow speed.

It is also called velocity field; when evaluated along a line, it is called a velocity profile.

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“Flow velocity” enters the record as vector field which is used to mathematically describe the motion of a continuum. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Flow, velocity and Vector can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 62-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Flow, velocity and Vector.
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This entry incorporates text from “Flow velocity” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.