Coandă may refer to:
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Constantin Coandă
Constantin Coandă (4 March 1857 – 30 September 1932) was a Romanian soldier and politician.
Biography
Constantin Coandă was born in Craiova. He reached the rank of general in the Romanian Army, and later became a mathematics profess ...
,
Romanian Army
The Romanian Land Forces ( ro, Forțele Terestre Române) is the army of Romania, and the main component of the Romanian Armed Forces. In recent years, full professionalisation and a major equipment overhaul have transformed the nature of the Lan ...
general, Prime Minister of Romania during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
.
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Henri Coandă, Constantin's son, aircraft designer and inventor.
**The
Coandă effect
The Coandă effect ( or ) is the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to a convex surface. ''Merriam-Webster'' describes it as "the tendency of a jet of fluid emerging from an orifice to follow an adjacent flat or curved surface and to en ...
, a phenomenon that causes a fluid to be attracted to another object, named after Henri Coandă.
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Romanian-language surnames