Frictional pressure drop

Frictional pressure drop

The frictional pressure drop is the decrease in pressure as a fluid passes through a conduit, caused by frictional losses within the conduit.

This article was created to discuss merging the following articles:
*Friction factor
*Darcy friction factor
*Darcy-Weisbach equation
*Moody chart
*Colebrook equation
*Haaland equation
*Fanning friction factor
*Atkinson friction factor
*Atkinson resistance
*Hazen-Williams equation
*Colebrook-White equation
*Swamee-Jain equation
*Prony equation
*Hydraulic diameter
*Friction loss
*Serghide's solution

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