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SilasX on May 9, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mpemba effect: warmer water can freeze faster than...

Well, even for gasses, your results are accurate enough as long as the Mach number is below 0.3: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/incompressible+fl...

calgaryeng on May 9, 2016 [–]

This is not done in practice. Be careful getting engineering advice from the Free Dictionary.

SilasX on May 9, 2016 | [–]

It reflected what I was taught in fluid/gas dynamics courses for my degree, and you'll see the same point made in various other places.

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