Entrainment (engineering)

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.^[1] 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.

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See also

• Air entrainment
• Souders-Brown equation

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