Laminar flow and turbulent flow in fluids is the exact same thing? Is this true or false. Turbulent flow has a back flow of liquid right so they cant be the same.
No, not exact same.
Flow of the liquid over plane surface or through a tube so long as the velocity of fluid is less than that a certain limiting value is called the streamline flow or laminar flow.
In laminar flow velocity of liquid at a given point is same in magnitude and direction.
If the velocity of liquid in laminar flow is gradually increased so that it is greater than critical velocity of the fluid then the flow becomes irregular and unstable. This flow is called turbulent flow.
In turbulent flow of fluid velocity of fluid at any point changes both in magnitude and direction.
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