Dunkirk: Where History Happened. We visit 10 places connected with the remarkable evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from northern France in 1940. This feature was first published in the April 2010 edition of BBC History Magazine. Tuesday 25th May 2010.
The seepage velocity is less than the actual flow rate of the liquid or gas in the pores because the fluid moves only through the portion of the cross-sectional area S that is occupied by the pores.
Terminal velocity is the highest velocity attainable by an object as it falls through a fluid. It occurs when the sum of the drag force and the buoyancy is equal to the downward force of gravity acting on the object. Since the net force on the object is zero, the object has zero acceleration. In fluid dynamics, an object is moving at its terminal velocity if its speed is constant due to the restraining force exerted by the fluid through which it is moving. As the speed of an object increases, so does the drag force acting on it, which also depends on the substance it is passing through (for example air or water).