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aerodynamic teardrop shape assuming a viscous medium passing from left to right the diagram shows the pressure distribution as the thickness of the black line and shows the velocity in the boundary layer as the violet triangles the green vortex generators prompt the transition to turbulent flow and prevent back flow also called flow separation from the high pressure region in the back the surface in front is as smooth as possible or even employs shark like skin as any turbulence here increases the energy of the airflow the truncation on the right known as a kammback also prevents backflow from the high pressure region in the back across the spoilers to the convergent part part of a series on continuum mechanics j d d φ d x displaystyle j d frac d varphi dx fick s laws of diffusion laws conservations mass momentum energy inequalities clausius duhem entropy solid mechanics deformation elasticity linear plasticity hooke s law stress strain finite strain infinitesimal strain compatibility bending contact mechanics frictional material failure theory fracture mechanics fluid mechanics fluids statics dynamics archimedes principle bernoulli s principle navier stokes equations poiseuille equation pascal s law viscosity newtonian non newtonian buoyancy mixing pressure liquids adhesion capillary action chromatography cohesion chemistry surface tension gases atmosphere boyle s law charles s law combined gas law fick s law gay lussac s law graham s law plasma magnetohydrodynamics rheology viscoelasticity rheometry rheometer smart fluids electrorheological magnetorheological ferrofluids scientists bernoulli boyle cauchy charles euler fick gay lussac graham hooke newton navier noll pascal stokes truesdell v t e in physics physical chemistry and engineering fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids liquids and gases it has several subdisciplines including aerodynamics the study of air and other gases in motion and hydrodynamics the study of water and other liquids in motion fluid dynamics has a wide range of applications including calculating forces and moments on aircraft determining the mass flow rate of petroleum through pipelines predicting weather patterns understanding nebulae in interstellar space understanding large scale geophysical flows involving oceans atmosphere and modelling fission weapon detonation fluid dynamics offers a systematic structure which underlies these practical disciplines that embraces empirical and semi empirical laws derived from flow measurement and used to solve practical problems the solution to a fluid dynamics problem typically involves the calculation of various properties of the fluid such as flow velocity pressure density and temperature as functions of space and time before the twentieth century hydrodynamics was synonymous with fluid dynamics this is still reflected in names of some fluid dynamics topics like magnetohydrodynamics and hydrodynamic stability both of which can also be applied to gases 1 equations edit see also transport phenomena the foundational axioms of fluid dynamics are the conservation laws specifically conservation of mass conservation of linear momentum and conservation of energy also known as the first law of thermodynamics these are based on classical mechanics and are modified in quantum mechanics and general relativity they are expressed using the reynolds transport theorem in addition to the above fluids are assumed to obey the continuum assumption at small scale all fluids are composed of molecules that collide with one another and solid objects however the continuum assumption assumes that fluids are continuous rather than discrete consequently it is assumed that properties such as density pressure temperature and flow velocity are well defined at infinitesimally small points in space and vary continuously from one point to another the fact that the fluid is made up of discrete molecules is ignored for fluids that are sufficiently dense to be a continuum do not contain ionized species and have flow velocities that are small in relation to the speed of light the momentum equations for newtonian fluids are the navier stokes equations which is a non linear set of differential equations that describes the flow of a fluid whose stress depends linearly on flow velocity gradients and pressure the unsimplified equations do not have a general closed form solution so they are primarily of use in computational fluid dynamics the equations can be simplified in several ways all of which make them easier to solve some of the simplifications allow some simple fluid dynamics problems to be solved in closed form citation needed in addition to the mass momentum and energy conservation equations a thermodynamic equation of state that gives the pressure as a function of other thermodynamic variables is required to completely describe the problem an example of this would be the perfect gas equation of state p ρ r u t m displaystyle p frac rho r_ u t m where p is pressure ρ is density and t is the absolute temperature while r u is the gas constant and m is molar mass for a particular gas a constitutive relation may also be useful conservation laws edit three conservation laws are used to solve fluid dynamics problems and may be written in integral or differential form the conservation laws may be applied to a region of the flow called a control volume a control volume is a discrete volume in space through which fluid is assumed to flow the integral formulations of the conservation laws are used to describe the change of mass momentum or energy within the control volume differential formulations of the conservation laws apply stokes theorem to yield an expression that may be interpreted as the integral form of the law applied to an infinitesimally small volume at a point within the flow mass continuity conservation of mass the rate of change of fluid mass inside a control volume must be equal to the net rate of fluid flow into the volume physically this statement requires that mass is neither created nor destroyed in the control volume 2 and can be translated into the integral form of the continuity equation t v ρ d v displaystyle frac partial partial t iiint _ v rho dv s displaystyle scriptstyle s ρ u d s displaystyle rho mathbf u cdot d mathbf s above ρ is the fluid density u is the flow velocity vector and t is time the left hand side of the above expression is the rate of increase of mass within the volume and contains a triple integral over the control volume whereas the right hand side contains an integration over the surface of the control volume of mass convected into the system mass flow into the system is accounted as positive and since the normal vector to the surface is opposite to the sense of flow into the system the term is negated the differential form of the continuity equation is by the divergence theorem ρ t ρ u 0 displaystyle frac partial rho partial t nabla cdot rho mathbf u 0 conservation of momentum see also cauchy momentum equation newton s second law of motion applied to a control volume is a statement that any change in momentum of the fluid within that control volume will be due to the net flow of momentum into the volume and the action of external forces acting on the fluid within the volume t v ρ u d v displaystyle frac partial partial t iiint _ scriptstyle v rho mathbf u dv s displaystyle _ scriptstyle s ρ u d s u displaystyle rho mathbf u cdot d mathbf s mathbf u s displaystyle scriptstyle s p d s displaystyle p d mathbf s v ρ f body d v f surf displaystyle displaystyle iiint _ scriptstyle v rho mathbf f _ text body dv mathbf f _ text surf in the above integral formulation of this equation the term on the left is the net change of momentum within the volume the first term on the right is the net rate at which momentum is convected into the volume the second term on the right is the force due to pressure on the volume s surfaces the first two terms on the right are negated since momentum entering the system is accounted as positive and the normal is opposite the direction of the velocity u and pressure forces the third term on the right is the net acceleration of the mass within the volume due to any body forces here represented by f body surface forces such as viscous forces are represented by f surf the net force due to shear forces acting on the volume surface the momentum balance can also be written for a moving control volume 3 the following is the differential form of the momentum conservation equation here the volume is reduced to an infinitesimally small point and both surface and body forces are accounted for in one total force f for example f may be expanded into an expression for the frictional and gravitational forces acting at a point in a flow d u d t f p ρ displaystyle frac d mathbf u dt mathbf f frac nabla p rho in aerodynamics air is assumed to be a newtonian fluid which posits a linear relationship between the shear stress due to internal friction forces and the rate of strain of the fluid the equation above is a vector equation in a three dimensional flow but it can be expressed as three scalar equations in three coordinate directions the conservation of momentum equations for the compressible viscous flow case is called the navier stokes equations 2 conservation of energy see also first law of thermodynamics fluid mechanics although energy can be converted from one form to another the total energy in a closed system remains constant ρ d h d t d p d t k t φ displaystyle rho frac dh dt frac dp dt nabla cdot left k nabla t right phi above h is the specific enthalpy k is the thermal conductivity of the fluid t is temperature and φ is the viscous dissipation function the viscous dissipation function governs the rate at which the mechanical energy of the flow is converted to heat the second law of thermodynamics requires that the dissipation term is always positive viscosity cannot create energy within the control volume 4 the expression on the left side is a material derivative classifications edit compressible versus incompressible flow edit all fluids are compressible to an extent that is changes in pressure or temperature cause changes in density however in many situations the changes in pressure and temperature are sufficiently small that the changes in density are negligible in this case the flow can be modelled as an incompressible flow otherwise the more general compressible flow equations must be used mathematically incompressibility is expressed by saying that the density ρ of a fluid parcel does not change as it moves in the flow field that is d ρ d t 0 displaystyle frac mathrm d rho mathrm d t 0 where d d t is the material derivative which is the sum of local and convective derivatives this additional constraint simplifies the governing equations especially in the case when the fluid has a uniform density for flow of gases to determine whether to use compressible or incompressible fluid dynamics the mach number of the flow is evaluated as a rough guide compressible effects can be ignored at mach numbers below approximately 0 3 for liquids whether the incompressible assumption is valid depends on the fluid properties specifically the critical pressure and temperature of the fluid and the flow conditions how close to the critical pressure the actual flow pressure becomes acoustic problems always require allowing compressibility since sound waves are compression waves involving changes in pressure and density of the medium through which they propagate newtonian versus non newtonian fluids edit flow around an airfoil all fluids except superfluids are viscous meaning that they exert some resistance to deformation neighbouring parcels of fluid moving at different velocities exert viscous forces on each other the velocity gradient is referred to as a strain rate it has dimensions t 1 isaac newton showed that for many familiar fluids such as water and air the stress due to these viscous forces is linearly related to the strain rate such fluids are called newtonian fluids the coefficient of proportionality is called the fluid s viscosity for newtonian fluids it is a fluid property that is independent of the strain rate non newtonian fluids have a more complicated non linear stress strain behaviour the sub discipline of rheology describes the stress strain behaviours of such fluids which include emulsions and slurries some viscoelastic materials such as blood and some polymers and sticky liquids such as latex honey and lubricants 5 inviscid versus viscous versus stokes flow edit the dynamic of fluid parcels is described with the help of newton s second law an accelerating parcel of fluid is subject to inertial effects the reynolds number is a dimensionless quantity which characterises the magnitude of inertial effects compared to the magnitude of viscous effects a low reynolds number re 1 indicates that viscous forces are very strong compared to inertial forces in such cases inertial forces are sometimes neglected this flow regime is called stokes or creeping flow in contrast high reynolds numbers re 1 indicate that the inertial effects have more effect on the velocity field than the viscous friction effects in high reynolds number flows the flow is often modeled as an inviscid flow an approximation in which viscosity is completely neglected eliminating viscosity allows the navier stokes equations to be simplified into the euler equations the integration of the euler equations along a streamline in an inviscid flow yields bernoulli s equation when in addition to being inviscid the flow is irrotational everywhere bernoulli s equation can completely describe the flow everywhere such flows are called potential flows because the velocity field may be expressed as the gradient of a potential energy expression this idea can work fairly well when the reynolds number is high however problems such as those involving solid boundaries may require that the viscosity be included viscosity cannot be neglected near solid boundaries because the no slip condition generates a thin region of large strain rate the boundary layer in which viscosity effects dominate and which thus generates vorticity therefore to calculate net forces on bodies such as wings viscous flow equations must be used inviscid flow theory fails to predict drag forces a limitation known as the d alembert s paradox a commonly used 6 model especially in computational fluid dynamics is to use two flow models the euler equations away from the body and boundary layer equations in a region close to the body the two solutions can then be matched with each other using the method of matched asymptotic expansions steady versus unsteady flow edit hydrodynamics simulation of the rayleigh taylor instability 7 a flow that is not a function of time is called steady flow laminar flow steady state flow refers to the condition where the fluid properties a...