Entrainment (engineering)

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Entrainment as commonly used in various branches of engineering may be defined as the entrapment of one substance by another substance. 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.

[edit] See also

• Air entrainment
• Entrainment (hydrodynamics)
• Entrainment (meteorology)
• Entrainment (physics)