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Hagen-Poiseuille equation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A physical law that gives the pressure drop in an incompressible Newtonian fluid in laminar flow flowing through a long cylindrical pipe of constant cross section.

Word forms

Hagen-Poiseuille equation the Hagen-Poiseuille equation

Etymology

It was experimentally derived independently by Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille in 1838 and Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen, and published by Poiseuille in 1840–41 and 1846.

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