Navier-Stokes Equations

The equation of incompressible fluid flow,

where  is the kinematic viscosity,  is the velocity of the fluid parcel,  is the pressure, and  is the fluid density.

The Navier-Stokes equations appear in Big Weld's office in the 2005 animated film Robots.

REFERENCES:

Landau, L. D. and Lifschitz, E. M. Fluid Mechanics, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, p. 15, 1982.

Zwillinger, D. Handbook of Differential Equations, 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Academic Press, p. 139, 1997.