Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Bernoulli principle
     
        (Or "air foil principle", after Swiss mathematician Daniel
        Bernoulli, 1700-1782) The law that pressure in a fluid
        decreases with the rate of flow.  It has been applied to a
        class of {hard disk} drives.
     
        See {Bernoulli Box}.
     
        (1997-04-15)