Wednesday, March 23, 2016

What does the continuum hypothesis of fluid mechanics mean?


I'm a bit confused by the continuum hypothesis stating that fluid are continuous objects rather than made out of discrete objects.


Say for $\rho (x,t)$ (density) is there more than one fluid particle at $x$ or less than one.





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