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Geometry-Topology Seminar

Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 4:30pm

David Ebin

SUNY Stony Brook

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C8

We will discuss flows of fluids for which the flow velocity is much less than the sound speed. For such flows we isolate that aspect of the flow which creates sound. As an application we study flow which is nearly steady-state and show how to compute the amplitude and frequencies of the sound that it generates. Using this computation we show how to construct a flow meter which can measure the rate of flow of a fluid through a given vessel.