bernoulli principle

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Bernoulli principle

   (Or "air foil principle", after Swiss mathematician Daniel
   Bernoulli, 1700-1782) The law that pressure in a fluid
   decreases with the rate of flow.  It has been applied to a
   class of {hard disk} drives.

   See {Bernoulli Box}.

   (1997-04-15)