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Also Known As	streamline flow • laminar motion

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Poiseuille flow Poiseuille’s equation fluid flow geostrophic motion Navier-Stokes equation Stokes’s law Bernoulli’s theorem Torricelli’s law Reynolds number turbulent flow Froude number drag turbulence