Fluid Dynamics

Roles: fluid, channel, flow, pressure, filter, source, sink, reservoir

The physics of liquids and gases in motion — flow rates, pressure differentials, turbulence, and containment. Extremely productive as a source domain because it provides intuitive models for anything that moves through conduits: information, money, traffic, emotions. The interplay of pressure, capacity, and resistance maps onto most throughput problems.

As Source Frame (6)

• A Problem Is a Body of Water → causal-reasoning
• Buffer Overflow → memory-management
• Data Flow Is Fluid Flow → data-processing
• Stdin, Stdout, Stderr → data-processing
• The Pipeline Pattern → data-processing
• Unix Pipe → data-processing