The Compressibility of a Fluid (Inverse Bulk Modulus) equation calculates the Compressibility of a Fluid (C_β) given it's Bulk Modulus (BM).

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose units and enter the following:

• (BM) Bulk Modulus of a Fluid

Description

In thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, compressibility (also known as the coefficient of compressibility^[1] or isothermal compressibility^[2]) is a measure of the relative volume change of a fluid or solid as a response to a pressure (or mean stress) change.

The inverse of the compressibility is called the bulk modulus (C_β).

The bulk modulus (BM) of a substance is a measure of how resistant to compressibility that substance is. It is defined as the ratio of the infinitesimal pressure increase to the resulting relative decrease of the volume.

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References

This description was obtained from wikipedia.