rotating fluid body
C16327
concept
A rotating fluid body is a continuous mass of fluid that spins around an axis, whose shape, internal flow, and dynamical behavior are governed by the balance of inertial, gravitational, and pressure forces under rotation.
Observed surface forms (4)
- astrophysical fluid configuration ×1
- rotational ellipsoid ×1
- self-gravitating fluid configuration ×1
- self-gravitating fluid mass ×1
Instances (4)
- Jacobi ellipsoid
- Maclaurin spheroid via concept surface "rotational ellipsoid"
- Roche–Riemann ellipsoids via concept surface "self-gravitating fluid configuration"
- Riemann ellipsoid via concept surface "astrophysical fluid configuration"