Sentence examples for the streamlines from inspiring English sources
verb
To design and construct the contours of a vehicle etc. so as to offer the least resistance to its flow through a fluid.
In steady flow, the fluid is in motion but the streamlines are fixed.
Where the streamlines crowd together, the fluid velocity is relatively high; where they open out, the fluid becomes relatively stagnant.
This flatness is linked to the fact that a disk has sharp edges around which the streamlines converge and diverge rapidly.
They do so because the streamlines are converging on the hole inside the vessel and are obliged to continue converging for a short while outside.
It does show up, however, in a modification of the flow pattern immediately behind the plate, where the streamlines no longer diverge as they do in Figure 18A.
The streamlines are similar in each case.
The streamlines at any given time are concentric circles.
The velocity field is then used to trace the streamlines.
a, b The streamlines generated by the microswimmer.
Moreover, the streamlines are distorted near rough nano-channel walls.
The density follows the streamlines focusing in the wake.
