Ablation to axisymmetric flow -- Backflow to bypass ratio -- Calcium to cylindrical rectangular aerofoil -- D'alembert's paradox to dynamics -- Eckert number to extratropical cyclone -- Factors influencing pitot-static tube performance to fusion pyrometers -- Gas to gyroscopic effect -- Hail to hypothesis -- Icbm to isotopes -- Jelly to Joule-Thompson effect -- Kaplan turbine to Kutta-Joukowski transformation -- Lactic acid to lungs -- Mach to Munk's theorem of stagger -- Natural gas to Nusselt number -- Oaspl to ozone hole -- Pacific Ocean to pyrometers -- Quality of energy to quasi-one-dimensional flow -- Radar to runway -- Sake to system -- Tail-less aircraft to typhoon -- Ultrapure water to upper critical Reynolds number -- Vacuum cleaner to vorticity -- Wake to working fluid -- Xenon -- Yacht to yoghurt -- Zap flap to zone of action.

"The text comprehensively introduces the subject vocabulary of fluid mechanics, to senior undergraduate and graduate students in engineering and physical sciences. It explains concepts such as cyclone, typhoon, hurricane, and tornado, by highlighting the shuttle difference between them"-- Provided by publisher.

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