Units of Volume Flow
Description
Examples
Volume flow has the dimension length cubed over time. The SI composite unit of volume flow is the cubic meter per second.
Maple knows the units of volume flow listed in the following table.
Name
Symbols
Context
Alternate Spellings
Prefixes
gallon_per_minute
gpm
US_liquid *
gallons_per_minute
UK
US_dry
cubic_foot_per_minute
cfm
standard *
cubic_feet_per_minute
An asterisk ( * ) indicates the default context, an at sign (@) indicates an abbreviation, and under the prefixes column, SI indicates that the unit takes all SI prefixes, IEC indicates that the unit takes IEC prefixes, and SI+ and SI- indicate that the unit takes only positive and negative SI prefixes, respectively. Refer to a unit in the Units package by indexing the name or symbol with the context, for example, gallon_per_minute[US_liquid] or cfm[standard]; or, if the context is indicated as the default, by using only the unit name or symbol, for example, gallon_per_minute or cfm.
The units of volume flow are defined as follows.
A US liquid, US dry, or UK gallon per minute is defined as a gallon of the same context per minute.
A standard cubic foot per minute is defined as a cubic standard foot per minute.
convert⁡gpm,dimensions,base=true
length3time
convert⁡1,units,gpm,galmin
1
convert⁡1,units,gpmUK,galUKmin
convert⁡1,units,gpmUS_dry,galUS_drymin
convert⁡1,units,cfm,ft3min
See Also
convert/dimensions
convert/units
Units
Units/Index
Units/length
Units/time
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