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flow velocity
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flow velocity [′flō və′läs·əd·ē]
(geology)
In soil, a vector point function used to indicate rate and direction of movement of water through soil per unit of time, perpendicular to the direction of flow.


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Initial conditions: the initial velocity field is given as zero, and the initial water level is given according to the water surface profile gradient ratio.
The opening three chapters are companion papers that address the Global Positioning System velocity field, strain-rate field, and geodynamic implications of velocity transients induced by recent earthquakes in the Great Basin and are followed by presentation of a graphical method documenting the relation between contemporary velocity and strain fields in the spatially heterogenous transtensional deformation characteristics of the central Walker Lane (a.
 
 
 
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