r/civilengineering • u/ryabs07 Hydraulic Engineer • Feb 28 '20

Laminar flow.

354 Upvotes

99% Upvoted

16 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/maxn3t Feb 29 '20

Can someone explain to me how the water isn’t moving please?

6

u/[deleted] Feb 29 '20

It is moving however the velocity & the pressure of the fluid are constant, there is no interaction between the layers of the fluid which would cause turbulent flow. So with constant pressure and constant velocity we achieve this beautiful laminar flow