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Latest revision as of 15:36, 26 January 2025
Definition of Barotropic:
Absence of density gradients (incompressible homogeneous fluid).
This is the common definition for Barotropic, other definitions can be discussed in the article
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Examples of barotropic water flow: water flow driven only by a sloping surface level (e.g. tidal flow) or by surface stress (e.g. wind-driven flow).
