A pressure sensor measures a pressure difference from which the modulus of flow velocity can be deduced. Some instruments allow simultaneous measurement of flow direction.
Consider a small parallelepiped dxdydz in a laboratory coordinate system, with mass equal to unity, to which we apply the fundamental equation of dynamics (Newton's equation):
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Description d'une machine pour mesurer la vitesse des eaux courantes et le sillage des vaisseaux
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Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences avec les mémoires de mathématique et de physique tirés des registres de cette Académie, p. 363-376 (1732).
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