Talk:Fluidics

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Michael Hardy suggested: This material should be incorporated into the article titled fluid dynamics, after which this page should be redirected to that one.

About incorporation in Fluid dynamics: it is hardly advisable IMO. Modern usage of the term fluidics indicates that it differs from Fluid dynamics like, say electronics from Electromagnetism: fluidics is about control devices based on fluid dynamics. Mikkalai 19:43, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

From R. Goodwell: Both comments have merit. Among interested laypeople there is confusion over fluidics and its relationship to the field of fluid dynamics. An acknowledgement of this confusion, brief clarification and cross-reference belong in both articles.

Fluidics is an application of fluid dynamics. So are wing design, plumbing, and hydraulics. The fluidics article already has a link to fluid dynamics, and is in Category:Fluid dynamics, so the basic links are in place. The first line of the Fluidics article seems to cover the definition. Is there a real problem here? --John Nagle 17:32, 14 May 2006 (UTC)