Current (fluid)
A current in a fluid is the magnitude and direction of flow within each portion of that fluid, such as a liquid or a gas.
Types of fluid currents include:
- Air current
- Water current
- * Current (hydrology), a current in a river or stream
- * Ocean current
- ** Longshore current
- ** Boundary current
- ** Rip current
- ** Rip tide
- ** Subsurface currents
- *** Turbidity current
- ** Tidal current