Entrainment (engineering)
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- See entrainment for other types.
Entrainment as commonly used in various branches of engineering may be defined as the entrapment of one substance by another substance. For example:
- The entrapment of liquid droplets or solid particulates in a flowing gas.
- The entrapment of gas bubbles or solid particulates in a flowing liquid.
- Given two mutually insoluble liquids, the entrapment of droplets of one liquid into the other liquid.
- Given two gases, the entrapment of one gas into the other gas.
- The intentional entrapment of air bubbles into concrete.
