Hydraulics
fluid engineering and fluid mechanics
Hydraulics is a topic of science and engineering subject dealing with the mechanical properties of liquids. Many machines work on hydraulic power.
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One of the founders of modern hydraulics was Benedetto Castelli, a student of Galileo Galilei.
Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, which focuses on the engineering uses of fluid properties.
Related pages
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change- International Association of Hydraulic Engineering and Research (IAHR)
- visualization of hydraulic concepts
- Information about Fluid Power is also available on the National Fluid Power Association web-site nfpa.com
- Decision tree to choose an uncertainty method for hydrological and hydraulic modelling Archived 2013-06-01 at the Wayback Machine