More generally, electric current can be represented as the rate at which charge flows through a given surface as:

Through the strait, water generally flows more or less continually in both an eastward and a westward direction.

The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction past Perugia and Rome to meet the sea at Ostia.

Guns are similar to rotors, except that they generally operate at very high pressures of 40 to 130 lbf / in² ( 275 to 900 kPa ) and flows of 50 to 1200 US gal / min ( 3 to 76 L / s ), usually with nozzle diameters in the range of 0. 5 to 1. 9 inches ( 10 to 50 mm ).

The Congo flows generally northwards from Kisangani just below the Boyoma falls, then gradually bends southwestwards, passing by Mbandaka, joining with the Ubangi River, and running into the Pool Malebo ( Stanley Pool ).

The Limpopo River () rises in central southern Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean.

It is generally believed that it is due to the inertia of the fluid as a whole: the culmination of time dependent and convective acceleration ; hence flows where inertial effects are small tend to be laminar ( the Reynolds number quantifies how much the flow is affected by inertia ).

The Var River rises near the Col de la Cayolle ( 2, 326 m / 7, 631 ft ) in the Maritime Alps and flows generally southeast for into the Mediterranean between Nice and Saint-Laurent-du-Var.

In the Zoige Basin along the boundary with Gansu Province, the Yellow River loops northwest and then northeast before turning south, creating the " Ordos Loop ", and then flows generally eastward across northern China to the Gulf of Bohai, draining a basin of which nourishes 140 million people with drinking water and irrigation.

It flows in a broad zigzag course generally southward across Western Pennsylvania ; first flowing southwest past Warren, Tidioute, Tionesta, Oil City, and Franklin, forming much of the northwestern boundary of Allegheny National Forest.

While the definition of hypersonic flow can be quite vague and is generally debatable ( especially due to the lack of discontinuity between supersonic and hypersonic flows ), a hypersonic flow may be characterized by certain physical phenomena that can no longer be analytically discounted as in supersonic flow.

The Arial Khan, a branch of the Ganges, enters the district from the north, and flows generally in a south-easterly direction until it falls into the estuary of the Meghna.

During medium to low river flows, coarser sediment generally collects in the hapua ; while some of the finer sediment can be transported through the outlet to the coast.

The Var rises near the Col de la Cayolle ( 2, 326 m / 7, 631 ft ) in the Maritime Alps and flows generally southeast for into the Mediterranean between Nice and Saint-Laurent-du-Var.

The Ardèche river flows as far as the Rhône, following a course generally to the south east.

The Guadalupe River flows generally southeastward through the county, and is impounded by Canyon Lake.

The river then flows generally east and a little north with some large curves for 15 miles ( 24 kilometers ) to the city of Williamsport, followed by the borough of Montoursville ( both on the north bank ) as well as the boroughs of Duboistown and South Williamsport ( on the south bank ).

The river flows generally southward from the Shannon Pot in County Cavan before turning west and emptying into the Atlantic Ocean through the long Shannon Estuary.

near Hornsby and flows generally south-east into Port Jackson.

Partially confined groundwater generally flows to the southwest.

Groundwater generally also flows with the surface of the terrain, that is, from the northeast to the southwest.

The neighborhoods in Grosse Pointe Park are built on a standard grid street pattern which flows out of Detroit, and housing ranges from tightly-packed single-and multi-family brick houses, often rentals, on the far west side of the Park, to rows of traditionally-styled single family homes generally averaging over, to multi-million dollar mansions, some of which are found on the lakeshore.

The Lester River rises in Gnesen Township and flows generally southeastwardly through Rice Lake and Lakewood Townships, turning southward as it nears Lake Superior.

The Lester River rises in nearby Gnesen Township and flows generally southeastwardly through Rice Lake and Lakewood Townships, turning southward as it nears Lake Superior.

The Ammonoosuc River rises at the confluence of several brooks and flows westward generally along Route 302 through town.

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle

In between the two lies a large plain in the valley of the Po, the largest river in Italy, which flows eastward from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic.

The Po (,, ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus, ) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso ( in the Cottian Alps ) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

One significant exception is the river with the most abundant flow in Spain, the Ebro, which flows eastward to the Mediterranean.

The Amu Darya flows across northeastern Turkmenistan, thence eastward to form the southern borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

From El Paso eastward, the river flows through desert.

This hydrothermal fluid flows laterally, down the hydraulic gradient, from the west to the southeast around the resurgent dome and then eastward to discharge points along Hot Creek and around Crowley Lake.

The fertile river valley of the Medjerda ( Wadi Majardah ) ( anciently called the Bagradas ) flows eastward and empties into the sea north of Tunis.

Thessaly's major river, the Pineios, flows eastward from the central Pindus Range just south of the spur, emptying into the Thermaic Gulf.

About 9 ° N there is a break in the wall, through which the Awash River flows eastward.

The river rises from its source in central Java at the Lawu volcano, then flows north and eastward to its mouth in the Java Sea near the city of Surabaya.

Much of Linwood ’ s commerce came from the saw mills on the river, so the town had grown very near the banks of the Kansas River ( affectionately known as the “ Kaw ” River ) that flows eastward to the Missouri.

The west branch of the Westfield River flows along much of the Middlefield town line, flowing eastward towards Chester.

Its headwaters are just west of the city limits in Credit River Township, and it flows eastward across Dakota County until it empties into the Mississippi River at the Wisconsin border.

North Creek, a major tributary of the Vermillion, begins its flow in northern Lakeville and flows eastward to meet the Vermillion near downtown Farmington just east of Lakeville.

The major geographic feature of Elk Township is the Elk Creek which flows eastward into the Des Moines River system.

( A separate and distinct Elk Creek exists elsewhere in Nobles County and flows eastward, joining the Des Moines River system.

Other geographic features include the Kanaranzi Creek which flows westard to the Missouri River via the Big Sioux River, and the Jack Creek which flows eastward to the Mississippi River via the Des Moines River.

* Sawmill Run – A stream that flows eastward into the Allegheny Reservoir, formed by the junction of its North Branch and South Branch near County Road 89.

* Clear Creek – A tributary of the Conewango Creek that flows eastward past the community of Clear Creek.

Panther Creek flows eastward through the south part of Fulton to Schoharie Creek.