GLOSSARY
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A

 
A (Ampère)
Acceleration
Accounting (Balancing, Law of balance)
Action and reaction, principle of
Air
Air pressure
Air resistance
Alternating current
Ambient pressure
Ambient temperature
Ammeter
Amount of substance

 
Ampere
Angle
Angstrom
Angular acceleration
Angular frequency
Angular momentum
Angualr momentum current
Angular speed
Angular velocity
Availability (available energy)

B
 
Balance, law of
Balance of amount of substance
Balance of angular momentum
Balance of energy
Balance of entropy
Balance of momentum

 
Balance of volume (of fluid)
Bernoulli effect
Bernoulli's theorem
Body force

C
 
C (Coulomb)
Ct (Carnot = J/K)
Capacitance (general)
Capacitance-content relation
Capacitance, hydraulic
Capacitance-pressure relation
Capacitive characteristic
Capacitive characteristic, hydraulic
Change
Change of amount of susbtance
Change of angular momentum
Change of charge
Change of content
Change of energy
Change of entropy
Change of momentum
Change of volume
Characteristic (diagram, curve)
Characteristic, capacitive
Characteristic, inductive
Characterisitc, of pump or generaotor
Characteristic, resistive
Charge, electric
Charge, thermal

 
Chemical potential
Complicance
Conductance, chemical
Conductance, electric
Conductance, hydraulic
Conductance, thermal
Conductive transports
Conductivity
Conductivity, chemical
Conductivity, electric
Conductivity, thermal
Continuity equation
Convection
Convective transports
Current (flux)
Current of amount of substance
Current of angular momentum
Current of charge
Current of energy
Current of entropy
Current of momentum
Current of volume

D
 
Density (volume-density)
Density (current-density)
Density of amount of substance
Density of charge
Density of energy
Density of entropy
Density of mass
Density of momentum

 
Difference
Difference of concentration
Difference of potential
Difference of pressure
Difference of speed
Difference of temperature
Dissipation

E
 
Elastance
Electric charge
Electric conductance
Electric conductivity
Electric current
Electric inductance
Electric potential
Electric potential difference
Electric power
Electric resistance
Electric resistivity
Electricity
Energy
Energy, available
Energy balance
Energy density
Energy current (energy flow)
Energy dissipated
Energy in hydraulic circuits
Energy released (and power)
Energy stored
Energy transfer
Energy transferred

 
Enthalpy
Enthalpy of fusion
Enthalpy of vaporization
Entropy
Entropy capacitance
Entropy capacitance, specific
Entropy capacitance, molar
Entropy change
Entropy density
Entropy current (Entropy flow)
Entropy stored
Entropy transfer
Entropy transfer, conductive
Entropy transfer, convective
Entropy transfer, radiative
Entropy transferred
Equilibration of pressure
Equilibration of temperature
Equilibrium (dynamic)
Equilibrium (static)
Exponential behavior

F
 
F (Farad)
Flow characteristic
Flow factor (turbulent)
Flow, laminar
Flow speed
Flow, turbulent
Force
Force of nature

 
Force, body
Force, surface
Force, volume
Friction
Friction force
Friction factor

G
 
G (Gibbs = J/mol)
Gradient
Gradient, of concentration
Gradient, of electric potential
Gradient, of pressure

 
Gradient, of temperature
Gradient, of velocity
Gravitational field
Gravity

H
 
H (Henry)
h (hour)
Hagen and Poiseuille, law
Hydraulic driving force (pressure difference)
Hydraulic processes
Hydrostatic equilibrium
Hydrostatic pressure

 
 

I,J
 
Induction
Inductive characteristic (electric)
Inductive characteristic (general)
Inductive characteristic (hydraulic)
Inductive characteristic (mechanical)

 
Inertia
Inertia, measure of Inertial forces
Interaction rule (action and reaction)
J (Joule)
Junction rule

K
 
K (Kelvin)
Kirchhoff's 1st law (electric circuits)
Kirchhoff's 1st law (hydraulic circuits)
Kirchhoff's 2nd law (electric circuits)
Kirchhoff's 2nd law (hydraulic circuits)

 
 

L
 
Laminar flow
Laminar flow laws
Loop rule, electric
Loop rule, hydraulic

 
 

M
 
m (meter)
m^2 (square meter)
m^3 (cubic meter)
Mass
Moisture, air
Moisture, soil

 
mol
Molar mass
Momentum
Momentum capacitance
Momentum current

N
 
N (Newton)

 
 

O
 
Ohm

 
 

P
 
Pa (Pascal)
Poiseuille, law of
Potential
Potential, chemical
Potential, electric
Potential, hydraulic
Potential, thermal
Potential, of water
Power
Pressure
Pressure difference
Pressure difference, Bernoulli

 
Pressure difference, capacitive
Pressure difference, gravitational
Pressure difference, inductive
Pressure difference, established by pump
Pressure difference, resistive
Pressure gradient
Pressure loss (turbulent)
Pump charactersitic

Q
 
Quantity of fluid (volume)

 
 

R
 
Rate of change
Rate of change of volume
RC system
Resistance, chemical transport
Resistance, electric
Resistance, hydraulic

 
Resistance, thermal
Resistive characteristic (flow characteristic)
Resistive force
Reynolds number

S
 
s (second)
Speed
Speed, of flow

   

T
 
Temporal patterns
Time
Time constant
Transported volume

 
Turbulent flow
Turbulent flow factor
Turbulent flow law
Turbulent pressure loss

U
       

V
 
V (Volt)
Viscosity
Volume
Volume, balance of
Volume, control volume
Volume of fluid

 
Volume, change of
Volume current
Volume exchanged
Volume, rate of change
Volume transported

W
 
W (Watt)
Water
Water potential
Windkessel
   

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