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Stagnation point

LC control no.sh2002012325
Topical headingStagnation point
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See alsoFluid mechanics
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Found inWork cat.: Gorla, R.S.R. Effects of unsteady free stream velocity and free stream turbulence on stagnation point heat transfer, 1984.
McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003: p. 2013 (stagnation point - (fl[uid] mech[anics]) - A point in a field of flow about a body where the fluid particles have zero velocity with respect to the body)
Chambers dictionary of science and technology, 1999: p. 1094 (stagnation point - (aero[nautics)] - point at or near the nose of a body in motion in a fluid where the flow divides and where fluid pressure is at a maximum, and the fluid is at rest)
Academic Press dictionary of science and technology, 1992: p. 2076 (stagnation point - fluid mechanics - the point in a flow field about a body at which the fluid has zero velocity relative to the body)
Web. 3 (stagnation point)