campylon

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Noun

campylon

1. (physics) A localized metric perturbation in an intrinsicly curved medium.
   • 2015, J.-D. Debus, M. Mendoza, S. Succi, H. J. Herrmann, “Poiseuille flow in curved spaces”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     We find that the flux depends only on a specific combination of campylon parameters, which we identify as the average campylon strength, and derive a universal flux law for the Poiseuille flow.