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Fluid mechanics is a branch of physics that deals with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases and plasmas) and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics has a wide range of applications, including for mechanical engineering, civil engineering, chemical engineering, geophysics, astrophysics and biology. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of resting fluids; And the dynamics of fluids, the study of the effect of forces on the movement of the fluid. It is a branch of the mechanics of the continuum, a subject that models matter without using information that is made of atoms; That is, it models the matter from a macroscopic point of view and not from a microscopic point of view. Fluid mechanics, especially fluid dynamics, is an active field of research with many problems that are partly or totally unresolved. Fluid mechanics can be mathematically complex, and can best be solved by numerical methods, typically using computers. A modern discipline, called Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), is dedicated to this approach to solve problems of fluid mechanics. Particle image velocimetry, an experimental method for visualizing and analyzing fluid flow, also takes advantage of the highly visual nature of fluid flow.