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Well, even for gasses, your results are accurate enough as long as the Mach number is below 0.3: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/incompressible+fl...

This is not done in practice. Be careful getting engineering advice from the Free Dictionary.

It reflected what I was taught in fluid/gas dynamics courses for my degree, and you'll see the same point made in various other places.