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 ρ(x,t) (density) is there more than one fluid particle at x or less than one.





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