@gsuberland I got schooled on this when optimizing an ocean circulation model. Computing the equation of state for sea water was a lot of the total computation... compressibility and salinity, mixing and advecting water packets up and down.
There there’s the bomb people who are like “oh sure let’s compress the plutonium so it becomes a critical mass” .. think about that, that’s not just water it’s a super dense heavy metal.
Anyway yeah, the more you know, the more “it depends” is the answer.
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
In response to this post@acsawdey funnily enough the context for this was a shockwave travelling through water, and I didn't even mention water's compressibility (or otherwise) because I was talking about the water as a momentum transfer medium.
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