Navier-Stokes equation

== English == === Etymology === Named after Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist, and George Gabriel Stokes, Irish mathematician and physicist. === Noun === Navier-Stokes equation (plural Navier-Stokes equations) (physics) A partial differential equation which describes the conservation of linear momentum for a Newtonian incompressible fluid. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Mach number Reynolds number