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 (24)

• A Problem Is a Body of Water → causal-reasoning
• Anger Is a Heated Fluid in a Container → mental-experience
• Buffer Overflow → memory-management
• Continuous Flow → manufacturing
• Data Flow Is Fluid Flow → data-processing
• Data Stream → computing
• Force Is a Substance Contained in Affecting Causes → causal-reasoning
• Force Is a Substance Directed at an Affected Party → physics
• Going-on-Being → mental-experience
• Laughter Is a Substance → humor
• Light Is A Fluid → natural-phenomena
• Memory Leak → memory-management
• Money Is A Liquid → economics
• Pipeline → systems-performance
• Scaling Is Dilution → organizational-behavior
• Source and Sink Analysis → security-analysis
• Stdin, Stdout, Stderr → data-processing
• The Mind Is a Jar of Water → perception-and-cognition
• The Pipeline Pattern → data-processing
• Time Is a River → time-and-temporality
• Unix Filter → data-processing
• Unix Pipe → data-processing
• Unix Tee → data-processing
• Value Stream → manufacturing