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Definition of INCOMPRESSIBLE

Incompressible
Incompressible In`com*press"i*ble, a. [Pref. in- not + compressible: cf. F. incompressible.] Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.

Meaning of INCOMPRESSIBLE from wikipedia

- In fluid mechanics, or more generally continuum mechanics, incompressible flow (isochoric flow) refers to a flow in which the material density of each...
- Incompressibility may refer to: a property in thermodynamics and fluid dynamics, see Compressibility or Incompressible flow a property of a vector field...
- u = 0 {\textstyle \nabla \cdot \mathbf {u} =0} for an incompressible fluid. Incompressibility rules out density and pressure waves like sound or shock...
- conductivity. The Euler equations can be applied to incompressible and compressible flows. The incompressible Euler equations consist of Cauchy equations for...
- In mathematics, an incompressible surface is a surface properly embedded in a 3-manifold, which, in intuitive terms, is a "nontrivial" surface that cannot...
- fundamental relationship between pressure, density, and flow velocity for incompressible flow known today as Bernoulli's principle, which provides one method...
- does not depend on the velocity or stress state of the fluid. For an incompressible and isotropic Newtonian fluid in laminar flow only in the direction...
- sufficiently large, meaning that it contains a properly embedded two-sided incompressible surface. Sometimes one considers only orientable Haken manifolds, in...
- gradient of a scalar always being equal to zero. In the case of an incompressible flow the velocity potential satisfies Laplace's equation, and potential...
- incompressible (divergence-free), two-dimensional flows. The Stokes stream function, named after George Gabriel Stokes, is defined for incompressible...