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:

    “But since all is well, keep it so, wake not a sleeping wolf.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “As long as skies are blue, and fields are green
    Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow,
    Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
    What falls away is always. And is near.
    I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
    I learn by going where I have to go.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)