Counterflow may refer to:
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Countercurrent exchange
Countercurrent exchange is a mechanism occurring in nature and mimicked in industry and engineering, in which there is a crossover of some property, usually heat or some chemical, between two flowing bodies flowing in opposite directions to each ...
, where two flowing bodies flowing in opposite directions to each other exchange, for example, heat
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Counterflow lane
In transport engineering wikt:nomenclature, nomenclature, a counterflow lane or contraflow lane is a lane in which traffic flows in the opposite direction of the surrounding lanes.
Contraflow lanes are often used for bicycles or bus rapid tran ...
a lane in which traffic flows in the opposite direction
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Counterflow Centrifugation Elutriation (CCE) a cell separating technique
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Cooling tower
A cooling tower is a device that rejects waste heat to the atmosphere through the cooling of a coolant stream, usually a water stream to a lower temperature. Cooling towers may either use the evaporation of water to remove process heat and ...
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Cooling tower's contact fill
Cooling is removal of heat, usually resulting in a lower temperature and/or phase change. Temperature lowering achieved by any other means may also be called cooling.ASHRAE Terminology, https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/free-resources/as ...
, of towers that wind streams vertically upward
*Counterflow steam engine, such as
Uniflow steam engine
*Counterflow heat exchanger in
Cryocooler
A refrigerator designed to reach cryogenic temperatures (below ) is often called a cryocooler. The term is most often used for smaller systems, typically table-top size, with input powers less than about 20 kW. Some can have input powers as l ...
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Recuperator
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quantum turbulence Quantum turbulence is the name given to the turbulent flow – the chaotic motion of a fluid at high flow rates – of quantum fluids, such as superfluids. The idea that a form of turbulence might be possible in a superfluid via the quantized vorte ...
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Counterflow Recordings
Ryan Smith, better known by his stage name Induce, is an American, Los Angeles-based DJ, record producer, singer, and writer. , founded by Induce (musician)
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''Counterflow'' (EP), by Victoria Modesta (2016)
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