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ME 3301: Fluid Dynamics

(Week 13: Part 2)

Kamran Nazir
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National University of Technology

Spring 2020
Chapter 9: Differential Analysis Of Fluid Flow
Conservation of Mass—The Continuity Equation

The Stream Function

Conservation of Linear Momentum—Cauchy’s Equation

The Navier–Stokes Equation

Differential Analysis of Fluid Flow Problems


Continuity and Navier–Stokes Equations in Cartesian
Coordinates
Differential Analysis of Fluid Flow Problems
Calculation of the Pressure Field for a Known Velocity
Field
Boundary Conditions
The Creeping Flow Approximation

Flows in which the Reynolds number is very small

Either density, V, or L is very small or viscosity is very


large (or some combination of these)
APPROXIMATION FOR INVISCID REGIONS OF FLOW

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