Inertial Flow
Unlike all other flows, inertial balance implies a uniform pressure field. In this idealisation:
- the flow is frictionless;
- no pressure gradient (and force) is present at all.
The only remaining action is the Coriolis force, which imparts curvature to the trajectory.
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