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Venturi effect, the Glossary

The Venturi effect is the reduction in fluid pressure that results when a moving fluid speeds up as it flows through a constricted section (or choke) of a pipe.^[1]

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Airbrush

An airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that atomizes and sprays various media, most often paint, but also ink, dye, and foundation.

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Aquarium

An aquarium (aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.

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Automated pool cleaner

An automated pool cleaner is a vacuum cleaner that is designed to collect debris and sediment from swimming pools with minimal human intervention.

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Barbecue grill

A barbecue grill or barbeque grill (known as a barbecue or barbie in Australia and New Zealand) is a device that cooks food by applying heat from below.

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Bernoulli's principle

Bernoulli's principle is a key concept in fluid dynamics that relates pressure, speed and height. Venturi effect and Bernoulli's principle are fluid dynamics.

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Bilge

The bilge of a ship or boat is the part of the hull that would rest on the ground if the vessel were unsupported by water.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a kind of ambient air gas burner used as laboratory equipment; it produces a single open gas flame, and is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.

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Carburetor

A carburetor (also spelled carburettor or carburetter) is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine.

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Choked flow

Choked flow is a compressible flow effect.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Clemens Herschel

Clemens Herschel (March 23, 1842 – March 1, 1930) was an American hydraulic engineer.

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Cylinder head

In a piston engine, the cylinder head (aka "head") sits above the cylinders, forming the roof of the combustion chamber.

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De Laval nozzle

A de Laval nozzle (or convergent-divergent nozzle, CD nozzle or con-di nozzle) is a tube which is pinched in the middle, making a carefully balanced, asymmetric hourglass shape.

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Density

Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.

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Diffuser (automotive)

A diffuser, in an automotive context, is a shaped section of the car rear which improves the car's aerodynamic properties by enhancing the transition between the high-velocity airflow underneath the car and the much slower freestream airflow of the ambient atmosphere.

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Diving regulator

A diving regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving.

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Downforce

Downforce is a downwards lift force created by the aerodynamic features of a vehicle.

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Drag (physics)

In fluid dynamics, drag, sometimes referred to as fluid resistance, is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object, moving with respect to a surrounding fluid. Venturi effect and drag (physics) are fluid dynamics.

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Eversource Energy

Eversource Energy is a publicly traded, Fortune 500 energy company headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut, and Boston, Massachusetts, with several regulated subsidiaries offering retail electricity, natural gas service and water service to approximately 4 million customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

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Firefighting foam

Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression.

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Flow measurement

Flow measurement is the quantification of bulk fluid movement. Venturi effect and Flow measurement are fluid dynamics.

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Flow velocity

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. Venturi effect and flow velocity are fluid dynamics.

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Flue gas

Flue gas is the gas exiting to the atmosphere via a flue, which is a pipe or channel for conveying exhaust gases, as from a fireplace, oven, furnace, boiler or steam generator.

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Fluid dynamics

In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids—liquids and gases.

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Gas stove

A gas stove is a stove that is fuelled by combustible gas such as natural gas, propane, butane, liquefied petroleum gas, syngas, or other flammable gas.

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Gasoline

Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish, and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines.

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Giovanni Battista Venturi

Giovanni Battista Venturi (11 September 1746 – 10 September 1822) was an Italian physicist, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science.

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Girsu

Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu; cuneiform 𒄈𒋢𒆠) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is now Tell Telloh in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq.

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Ground effect (cars)

In car design, ground effect is a series of effects which have been exploited in automotive aerodynamics to create downforce, particularly in racing cars.

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Hawa Mahal

The Hawa Mahal is a palace in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

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Holyoke Canal System

The Holyoke Canal System is a system of power canals in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

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Ideal gas law

The ideal gas law, also called the general gas equation, is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas.

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Injector

An injector is a system of ducting and nozzles used to direct the flow of a high-pressure fluid in such a way that a lower pressure fluid is entrained in the jet and carried through a duct to a region of higher pressure. Venturi effect and injector are fluid dynamics.

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Inspirator

An inspirator is a device, similar to a venturi tube and an orifice plate, which mixes a fuel gas with atmospheric air in a precise ratio to regulate burn characteristics. Venturi effect and inspirator are fluid dynamics.

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Inviscid flow

In fluid dynamics, inviscid flow is the flow of an inviscid fluid which is a fluid with zero viscosity. Venturi effect and inviscid flow are fluid dynamics.

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Joule–Thomson effect

In thermodynamics, the Joule–Thomson effect (also known as the Joule–Kelvin effect or Kelvin–Joule effect) describes the temperature change of a ''real'' gas or liquid (as differentiated from an ideal gas) when it is forced by a pressure difference through a valve or porous plug while keeping it insulated so that no heat is exchanged with the environment.

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Kinetic energy

In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.

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Latent heat

Latent heat (also known as latent energy or heat of transformation) is energy released or absorbed, by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process—usually a first-order phase transition, like melting or condensation.

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Leadpipe

In a brass instrument, a leadpipe or mouthpipe is the pipe or tube into which the mouthpiece is placed.

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Metrology

Metrology is the scientific study of measurement.

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Mistral (wind)

The mistral (mestral, Corsican: maestrale, maestral, μαΐστρος, maestrale, majjistral) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean.

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Molar concentration

Molar concentration (also called molarity, amount concentration or substance concentration) is a measure of the concentration of a chemical species, in particular, of a solute in a solution, in terms of amount of substance per unit volume of solution.

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Molar mass

In chemistry, the molar mass (or molecular weight) of a chemical compound is defined as the ratio between the mass and the amount of substance (measured in moles) of any sample of the compound.

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Nasiriyah

Nasiriyah (an-Nāṣiriyya, BGN), also spelled Nassiriya or Nasiriya, is a city in Iraq, the capital of the Dhi Qar Governorate.

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Orifice plate

An orifice plate is a device used for measuring flow rate, for reducing pressure or for restricting flow (in the latter two cases it is often called a). Venturi effect and orifice plate are fluid dynamics.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Potential energy

In physics, potential energy is the energy held by an object because of its position relative to other objects, stresses within itself, its electric charge, or other factors.

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Pressure

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Venturi effect and Pressure are fluid dynamics.

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Pressure altimeter

Altitude can be determined based on the measurement of atmospheric pressure.

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Pressure head

In fluid mechanics, pressure head is the height of a liquid column that corresponds to a particular pressure exerted by the liquid column on the base of its container. Venturi effect and pressure head are fluid dynamics.

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Protein skimmer

A protein skimmer or foam fractionator is a device used to remove organic compounds such as food and waste particles from water.

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Recoilless rifle

A recoilless rifle (rifled), recoilless launcher (smoothbore), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil.

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Rhône

The Rhône is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.

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Siphon

A siphon (also spelled syphon) is any of a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes. Venturi effect and siphon are fluid dynamics.

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Speed of sound

The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. Venturi effect and speed of sound are fluid dynamics.

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Spray nozzle

A spray nozzle or atomizer is a device that facilitates the dispersion of a liquid by the formation of a spray.

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Square root

In mathematics, a square root of a number is a number such that y^2.

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Standard state

The standard state of a material (pure substance, mixture or solution) is a reference point used to calculate its properties under different conditions.

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Static pressure

In fluid mechanics the term static pressure refers to a term in Bernoulli's equation written words as static pressure + dynamic pressure. Venturi effect and static pressure are fluid dynamics.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.

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Sumer

Sumer is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.

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Timbre

In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Trombone

The trombone (Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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Trompe

A trompe is a water-powered air compressor, commonly used before the advent of the electric-powered compressor.

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Underway replenishment

Underway replenishment (UNREP) (U.S. Navy) or replenishment at sea (RAS) (North Atlantic Treaty Organization/Commonwealth of Nations) is a method of transferring fuel, munitions, and stores from one ship to another while under way.

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Vacuum cleaner

A vacuum cleaner, also known simply as a vacuum, is a device that uses suction, and often agitation, in order to remove dirt and other debris from carpets and hard floors.

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Vacuum ejector

A vacuum ejector, or simply ejector is a type of vacuum pump, which produces vacuum by means of the Venturi effect.

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Velocity

Velocity is the speed in combination with the direction of motion of an object.

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Venturi scrubber

A venturi scrubber is designed to effectively use the energy from a high-velocity inlet gas stream to atomize the liquid being used to scrub the gas stream.

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Volumetric flow rate

In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually it is represented by the symbol (sometimes \dot V). Venturi effect and volumetric flow rate are fluid dynamics.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venturi_effect

Also known as Venturi Meter, Venturi Tube, Venturi flow meter, Venturi pipe, Venturi principle, Venturi's principle, Venturies, Venturis, Ventury.

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