Wake

Wake

A wake is the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a moving or stationary solid body, caused by the flow of surrounding fluid around the body.

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Famous quotes containing the word wake:

    “Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.”
    —Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)

    “And whether life had been before that sleep
    The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell

    ‘Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
    I know not.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “... the fundamental principles of ecology govern our lives wherever we live, and ... we must wake up to this fact or be lost.”
    —Karin Sheldon (b. c. 1945)