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Flow matching for speech synthesis
Flow matching for speech synthesis is a generative TTS method that learns to carry noise to speech in few steps, used at scale by Meta's Voicebox in 2023.
Flow net
A flow net is a graphical solution for two-dimensional steady flow through porous media, used in geotechnical engineering to compute seepage, pore pressures, and exit gradients.
Flow photochemistry reactors
A flow photochemistry reactor is a continuous-flow device that pumps reaction solutions through narrow, light-transmitting tubing under uniform irradiation, used in organic synthesis and water treatment.
Flow shop scheduling
Flow shop scheduling is the problem of sequencing jobs that pass through a series of machines in the same order to optimize objectives such as total production time.
Flow-3D
FLOW-3D is a general-purpose three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics software package developed by Flow Science of Santa Fe, New Mexico, distributed since 1985 and known for free-surface flow simulation.
Flow-drill screwing
Flow-drill screwing (FDS) is a single-sided sheet-metal joining process where a rotating screw generates frictional heat, forms its own threaded bushing without chips, and tightens in one automated operation.
Flowbee
The Flowbee is a home haircutting device that attaches to a vacuum cleaner hose, invented by carpenter Rick Hunts in San Diego and patented in 1987.
Flowchart
A flowchart, also known as a flow sheet, is a diagram that outlines a sequence of operations using standardized symbols such as rectangles and arrows.
Flowco Holdings
Flowco Holdings is a Houston-based oilfield services company providing artificial lift, production optimization, and emissions management for oil and gas producers; it went public on the NYSE in 2025.
Flower-class corvette
The Flower-class corvette was a small British-designed escort warship of the Second World War, built in large numbers in the United Kingdom and Canada for convoy protection.
Flowise
Flowise is an open source, low-code platform for building AI agents and LLM workflows on a drag-and-drop canvas, founded in 2023, backed by Y Combinator, and acquired by Workday in 2025.
Flowserve Corporation
Flowserve Corporation is a Dallas, Texas-based provider of flow control products and services, formed in 1997 by merging BW/IP and Durco International, serving energy, chemical, water, and general industries.
Floyd Dunn
Floyd Dunn (1924–2015) was an American electrical engineer and biophysicist at the University of Illinois who quantified how living tissue absorbs ultrasound, work that became the basis for worldwide diagnostic ultrasound safety standards.
Floyd L. Culler
Floyd L. Culler Jr. (1923–2004) was an American chemical engineer and nuclear scientist who served as deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and president of EPRI.
Floyd–Warshall algorithm
The Floyd–Warshall algorithm, also known as Warshall's algorithm, finds the shortest path between every pair of vertices in a weighted directed graph, handling negative edge weights and detecting negative cycles.
FLTK
FLTK (Fast Light Toolkit) is a lightweight, cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for X11, Windows, macOS, and OpenGL, created by Bill Spitzak and distributed under an LGPL-style license.
Flue gas condensing heat recovery
Flue gas condensing heat recovery cools combustion exhaust below its water dew point, recovering latent heat that can raise boiler efficiency by more than 10%.
Flue-gas desulfurization
Flue-gas desulfurization, also called flue-gas desulphurisation, is a set of chemical processes that remove sulfur dioxide from coal-fired power plant exhaust gases, most commonly by wet limestone scrubbing.
Fluence Energy
Fluence Energy is an American grid-scale battery energy storage company in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 2017 as a joint venture of Siemens and AES and publicly traded since 2021.
Fluent Bit
Fluent Bit (fluent-bit) is an open-source CNCF-graduated telemetry agent, created in 2014 by Eduardo Silva, that collects, processes, and forwards logs, metrics, traces, and profiles with memory and filesystem buffering, distinguished from Fluentd by its lightweight C implementation and ~80 built-in plugins.
Fluent human-robot interaction
Fluent human-robot interaction is the coordinated meshing of joint activities between a human and robot working as a team, codified by Guy Hoffman at Cornell in 2019.
Fluent interface
A fluent interface, also known as a fluent API, is an object-oriented API designed so a sequence of calls reads coherently, a term coined by Martin Fowler and Eric Evans.
Fluentd
Fluentd: open-source data collector for a unified logging layer, created in 2011 by Sadayuki Furuhashi at Treasure Data, written in C and Ruby, a CNCF graduated project since April 2019.
Fluid catalytic cracking
Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), or cat cracking, is a petroleum refining process introduced in 1942 that converts heavy gas oil into lighter products, chiefly high-octane gasoline.
Fluid coking
Fluid coking is a continuous refinery process that thermally cracks heavy petroleum residues, such as vacuum residuum, into gas, gasoline, gas oil, and coke, developed by Exxon.
Fluid coupling
A fluid coupling is a hydrodynamic device that transmits rotational power between shafts through circulating oil, using a pump impeller and turbine but never multiplying torque.
Fluid dynamic bearing
A fluid dynamic bearing is a non-contact bearing where an oil film levitates the shaft, replacing ball bearings in hard disk drive motors from the mid-1990s.
Fluid shift and orthostatic intolerance in spaceflight
Fluid shift and orthostatic intolerance in spaceflight is the headward movement of body fluid in weightlessness, which reduces blood volume and causes fainting on return to gravity.
Fluidic elastomer actuator
A fluidic elastomer actuator (FEA) is a soft robotic actuator in which pressurized air or liquid inflates chambers molded inside a flexible elastomer, producing bending, twisting, or contraction.
Fluidic oscillator
A fluidic oscillator is a device that converts a steady supply of fluid into a periodic oscillating output with no moving parts, used in flow meters and soft robotics.