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Fluid Dynamics Cheat Sheet

The document discusses key concepts in fluid mechanics including: 1. It defines streamlines, pathlines, and streaklines which describe fluid particle movement. 2. It covers flow regimes including laminar, turbulent, and transitional flow based on the Reynolds number. 3. It presents the basic equations of fluid mechanics like conservation of mass and momentum equations.

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Fluid Dynamics Cheat Sheet

The document discusses key concepts in fluid mechanics including: 1. It defines streamlines, pathlines, and streaklines which describe fluid particle movement. 2. It covers flow regimes including laminar, turbulent, and transitional flow based on the Reynolds number. 3. It presents the basic equations of fluid mechanics like conservation of mass and momentum equations.

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Test 1

Number of dimensions based on x, y, and z


Steady depends on t
If Steady: Pathline = Streakline = Streamline
Streamline: A line that is everywhere tangent to local
velocity vector



Pathline: Actual path traversed by a fluid particle



Streakline: Particles that have pass through a specific
point
For block example and really really small h:
Laminar flow: Low Reynolds number, smooth flow
Unstable flow: Re = Re
crit

Turbulent flow: Re > Re
crit


For Mach < 0.3 assume incompressible



Test 2
Conservation of Mass:


Momentum Equation:



Conservation of Energy:


or


Assumptions: Steady State:


Incompressible:
Uniform Velocity
Ideal gas:


Subsonic jet:

)
Test 3
Continuity Equation (Possible Incompressible Flow):

The number of dimensions is dependent on x, y, and z

Particle Acceleration:

Pressure Gradient:

Irrotational Fluid:

Rotation:

Circulation:
For a square element:

Navier-Stokes Equation:
Force Term has *equation
The other is the Acceleration Term


Bernoulli Equation:

Assumptions: Steady State:


Incompressible:
Inviscid
Along the same Streamline

)

Reynolds Number (other side of page)

Mach Number (other side of page)

Euler Number (Pressure Coefficient):

Weber Number (for bubbles):

Froude Number:

Drag Coefficient:

Flow Similarity and Model Studies:
1) Geometric Similarity (Same shape with some scale
factor)
2) Kinematic Similarity (Velocities in same direction and
scale between sizes)
3) Dynamic Similarity (Same Force Distribution):


) [


Final (Chapter 8)
Stationary Plates
Volumetric Flow Rate per Length:

Pipes
Laminar Flow

)
(

* (

)+


If Laminar: If Turbulent:

For
For

and



Cavitation is Low-Pressure Boiling and most likely to occur
at max velocity

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