HLC-IV

Kinematics involves position, velocity, and acceleration of the fluid, and the description
and visualization of its motion not force.

Continuum hypothesis and consider fluids to be made up of fluid particles that interact
with each other and with their surroundings. Each particle contains numerous molecules.

We can describe the flow of a fluid in terms of the motion of fluid particles rather than
individual molecules.

The infinitesimal particles of a fluid are tightly packed together. Thus, at a given instant
in time, a description of any fluid property (such as density, pressure, velocity, and
acceleration) may be given as a function of the fluid’s location. This representation of
fluid parameters as functions of the spatial coordinates is termed a field representation of
the flow.

Of course, the specific field representation may be different at different times, so that to
describe a fluid flow we must determine the various parameters not only as a function of
the spatial coordinates (x, y, z, for example) but also as a function of time, t.