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Conservation Laws

Continuity Equation

Conservation of mass in a flow.

∂ρ/∂t + ∇·(ρu) = 0

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What it means

The continuity equation states that mass is neither created nor destroyed, tying density changes to the divergence of mass flux.

Variables

ρdensity
uvelocity

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