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Fluid Mechanics Assignment 3 Kinematics: Aditya Bandopadhyay

This document contains 12 fluid mechanics assignment questions related to kinematics, including: 1) Determining streamlines, strain and rotation tensors for steady 2D flows 2) Using dimensional analysis and finding streamlines, pathlines, and streaklines for time-dependent 2D flows 3) Finding streamlines and pathlines for an unsteady 2D plane flow 4) Calculating unsteady and advective acceleration terms for various flow fields 5) Showing the strain rate tensor is zero and determining the rotation tensor for a rotating flow 6) Computing circulation for a given flow field 7) Determining streamlines, pathlines and streaklines passing through the origin for a 2D oscillating flow

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Fluid Mechanics Assignment 3 Kinematics: Aditya Bandopadhyay

This document contains 12 fluid mechanics assignment questions related to kinematics, including: 1) Determining streamlines, strain and rotation tensors for steady 2D flows 2) Using dimensional analysis and finding streamlines, pathlines, and streaklines for time-dependent 2D flows 3) Finding streamlines and pathlines for an unsteady 2D plane flow 4) Calculating unsteady and advective acceleration terms for various flow fields 5) Showing the strain rate tensor is zero and determining the rotation tensor for a rotating flow 6) Computing circulation for a given flow field 7) Determining streamlines, pathlines and streaklines passing through the origin for a 2D oscillating flow

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Fluid Mechanics Assignment 3

Kinematics
Aditya Bandopadhyay

1. For the two-dimensional steady flow having velocity components u = Sy and v = Sx, determine the
following when S is a positive real constant having units of inverse time.
(a) equations for the streamlines with a sketch of the flow pattern
(b) the components of the strain-rate tensor
(c) the components of the rotation tensor
(d) the coordinate rotation that diagonalizes the strain-rate tensor, and the principal strain rates

2. Consider a time-dependent flow field in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates where u = lτ /t2 , v =


xy/lτ , and l and τ are constant length and time scales, respectively.
0 0
(a) Use dimensional analysis to determine the functional form of the streamline through x at time t .
0 0
(b) Find the equation for the streamline through x at time t and put your answer in dimensionless
form.
0 0
(c) Repeat part b) for the path line through x at time t .
0 0
(d) Repeat part b) for the streak line through x at time t .

3. The velocity components in an unsteady plane flow are given by u = x/(1 + t) and v = 2y/(2 + t).
Determine equations for the streamlines and path lines subject to x = x0 at t = t0 .

4. Determine the unsteady, ∂u/∂t, and advective, (u · ∇)u, fluid acceleration terms for the following flow
fields specified in Cartesian coordinates.
(a) u = (u(x, y, z), 0, 0)
(b) u = Ω × x where Ω = (0, 0, Ωz (t))
(c) u = A(t)(x, −y, 0)
(d) u = (U0 + u0 sin(kx − Ωt), 0, 0) where U0 , u0 , k and Ω are positive constants

5. For the flow field u = U + Ω × x, where U and Ω are constant linear- and angular velocity vectors, use
Cartesian coordinates to a) show that Sij is zero, and b) determine Rij .

6. A flow field on the xy-plane has the velocity components u = 3x + y and v = 2x − 3y. Show that the
circulation around the circle (x − 1)2 + (y − 6)2 = 4 is 4π.
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7. Determine the streamline, path line, and streak line that pass through the origin of coordinates at t = t
when u = U0 + ωξ0 cos(ωt) and v = ωξ0 sin(ωt) in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates where U0 is a
constant horizontal velocity.
 
8. Consider the following steady Cartesian velocity field u = (x2−Ay , +Ax
+y 2 )β (x2 +y 2 )β
, 0
(a) Determine the streamline that passes through x = (x0 , y0 , 0).
(b) Compute Rij for this velocity field.
(c) For A > 0, explain the sense of rotation (i.e., clockwise or counterclockwise) for fluid elements for
β < 1, β = 1, and β > 1.

9. Calculate the speed and acceleration of a fluid particle at the point (2, 1, -3) when t = 2 s if the velocity
field is given by (distances are in meters and the constants have the necessary units):
(a) V = 2xyi + y 2 tj + yzk m/s
(b) V = 2(xy − z 2 )i + xytj + xztk m/s
10. What is the equation of the streamline that passes through the point (2, -1) when t = 2 s if the velocity
field is given by:
(a) V = 2xyi + y 2 tj m/s
(b) V = 2y 2 i + xytj m/s

11. Find the unit vector normal to the streamline at the point (2, -1) when t = 2 s if the velocity field is
given by:
(a) V = 2xyi + y 2 tj m/s
(b) V = 2y(x − y)i + xytj m/s

12. The temperature field of a flow in which V = 2yi + xj + tk is given by T (x, y, z) = 20xy ◦ C. Determine
the rate of change of the temperature of a fluid particle in the flow at the point (2, 1, -2) at t = 2 s.

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