For an incompressible fluid, these two values will be identical. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
Mounds of incompressible garbage. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Give an example of a compressible fluid and an incompressible fluid. From Wordnik.com. [Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future « Books « Literacy News] Reference
Water is much less compressible than air (water is virtually incompressible). From Wordnik.com. [Differences between aquatic and terrestrial environments] Reference
Turbulence in the incompressible NS equations is not chaotic if properly resolved. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference
Energetic cost to space is the same for everyone and essentially incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [A Big First Step for COTS-D Today - NASA Watch] Reference
The new quantum fluid strongly resists compression; it is said to be incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [Press Release: The 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics] Reference
This is a revolutionary new concept in thermodynamics -- an incompressible ideal gas!. From Wordnik.com. [Over reach] Reference
I also believe that the fluid is not incompressible, but rather slightly compressible. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit] Reference
First, we have to bear in mind that air is considered an incompressible fluid for low-speed flight. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #21 « Climate Audit] Reference
The earliest computations were for homogeneous isotropic, incompressible turbulence with no gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference
For example an Mp3 is for the most part incompressible or approximately so, as far as we know anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Disinformation Theory - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But a function of this type has high Kolmogorov-Chaitin information: random sequences are incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [A peer-reviewed article that supports ID ... or something else (part 2) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The hypothesized luminiferous ether was massless, rigid, incompressible and mediated electromagnetic waves. From Wordnik.com. [Wells: “Darwinism is Doomed” because we keep making progress - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
There solutions of the incompressible NS equations are computed deterministically for long periods of time. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference
The Outsider is for those of us who have dreamed that those who raised us are mysterious and incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
The ocean part is similar, but continuty amounts to zero divergence, because the ocean is taken to be incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [GCMs and the Navier-Stokes Equations « Climate Audit] Reference
Her hands squeezed over his biceps, glorying in the resistance, because they were like iron — incompressible, rigid. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
I have difficulty to see what you mean when saying that N-S equations , even in the incompressible case , are not chaotic. From Wordnik.com. [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference
Furthermore, two simple principles are taught by physics: Fluids are incompressible and they seek the lowest hydrostatic level. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
Tom Enders presumably knows a thing or two about kinematics, incompressible flow around airfoils, torsion, elasticity and fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [The Week Ahead: July 17-21, 2006People To Watch: The Week Ahead] Reference
Its liquids, being practically incompressible and surrounded on all sides by bones, could not otherwise yield to the movements of the stapes. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Although there are many named variants and special cases, the fundamental equations are the incompressible Navier-Stokes for Newtonian fluids. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Here, therefore, loss of adhesion with the wall is greatest, while into the cavity so formed is poured a large quantity of a fluid that is practically incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [Diseases of the Horse's Foot] Reference
But ultimately our acceptance of terrible poverty amidst such extravagant and nearly incompressible wealth is possible because we underestimate the heart of our nation. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Bhargava: How Big Is America's Heart?] Reference
In the case of water, which is almost incompressible, this property is well marked, and unquestionably would be very nearly the same if water were wholly incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
Water is essentially incompressible outside of the laboratory. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Fast & Shoot Straight] Reference
But there is in his thought an incompressible energy of revolt. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eyolf] Reference
The latest incompressible outrage from the muhammedan president. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Monitor] Reference
It was for a long time supposed to be absolutely incompressible. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Forces] Reference
'Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I ever knew,' &c., v. 391. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.] Reference
Now this is just what a vortex-ring would do in an incompressible frictionless fluid. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
When the pulse is hard, incompressible, and bounding, this remedy is more effectual than aconite. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
With such an incompressible legalistic rhetoric, the viewer is forced to loathe the legal system. From Wordnik.com. [PopMatters] Reference
He spoke of his own paragraphs as incompressible, "each sentence an infinitely repellent particle.". From Wordnik.com. [History of American Literature] Reference
Recently, I've met a few references on incompressible SPH with additional Poisson equation for pressure. From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
The bulge itself was an incompressible thing, like a roaring lift of the waters from submarine explosion. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference
They are usually regarded as incompressible; at least, a very great mechanical force is required to compress them. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference
The waves are incompressible - a characteristic that allows them to propagate the necessary distances to heat the corona. From Wordnik.com. [SEEDMAGAZINE.COM] Reference
Air becomes incompressible at supersonic speeds, so either his feet or head will need to handle the friction and stress created. From Wordnik.com. [freshnews.org - most clicked links] Reference
As liquids are incompressible, the fact that the CO2 can be pumped down at all means that water is being displaced out of its way. From Wordnik.com. [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference
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