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Helmholtz function

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helmholtz free energynoun(physics, thermodynamics) A measure of the useful work obtainable from a constant temperature, constant volume thermodynamic system; more precisely, the difference between internal energy (of a system) and the product of its absolute temperature and entropy.
helmholtz coilnoun(physics) A device for producing a region of nearly uniform magnetic field.
flow fieldnoun(physics) The distribution of the density and velocity of a fluid over space and time
velocity potentialnoun(fluid mechanics, of an inviscid irrotational flow) A scalar potential function relating to the flow’s velocity distribution, defined as ϕ=∇⃑V.
helicitynoun(physics, fluid mechanics, electrodynamics) Any of certain measures of the extent to which vortex lines (in fluid flow) or field lines (in a magnetic or electromagnetic field) kink and twist or link and coil around one another.
headnoun(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
quantized vortexnoun(physics) a flow pattern exhibited by superfluids, such as ⁴He below 2.17K, in which the circulation rate is restricted to a quantized multiple of Planck's constant divided by the mass of the He atom
harmonicnoun(physics) A component frequency of the signal of a wave that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
legendre transformationnoun(physics, analytical dynamics) A formula for converting a Lagrangian function to a Hamiltonian function (or vice versa).
wavefieldnoun(physics) The extended area or space taken up by a wave.
flux densitynoun(physics) A measure of rate of flow of a fluid, particles or energy per unit area.
fourier transformnoun(mathematical analysis, harmonic analysis, physics, electrical engineering) A particular integral transform that when applied to a function of time (such as a signal), converts the function to one that plots the original function's frequency composition; the resultant function of such a conversion.
penrose transformnoun(physics) A complex analog of the Radon transform that relates massless fields on spacetime, or more precisely the space of solutions to massless field equations, to sheaf cohomology groups on complex projective space.
prandtl-meyer functionnoun(aerodynamics) A function describing the angle through which a flow can turn isentropically for the given initial and final Mach number.
vorticitynoun(mathematics, fluid dynamics) A property of a fluid flow related to local angular rotation; defined as the curl of the flow's velocity field.
umklapp scatteringnoun(physics) The transformation of a wave vector to another Brillouin zone as a result of a scattering process.
hybrid wave functionnoun(physics) An approximation to a wave function made by taking a linear combination of simpler functions
elastohydrodynamicsnoun(physics) The hydrodynamics of elastic fluids
dissipation functionnoun(physics) The function governing the rate at which mechanical energy is converted to heat during viscous flow.
gerstner wavenoun(fluid dynamics) An exact solution of the Euler equations for periodic surface gravity waves, describing a progressive wave of permanent form on the surface of an incompressible fluid of infinite depth.

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