viscous flow
Britishnoun
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The value of this quantity changes sign in the case of viscous flow.
From Nature
Viscous flow in liquids leads to turbulence and whirls, depending on the viscosity of the liquid and on obstacles to the flow.
From Nature
In the ensuing decades, that stress would be relaxed not in microseismic rumblings but in silent, viscous flow.
From The New Yorker
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