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Typical aerodynamic teardrop shape, assuming a viscousmedium 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 employsshark like skin, as any turbulence here will reduce the energy of the airflow. The truncation on the right, known as aKammback, also prevents back flow from the high pressure region in the back across the spoilers to the convergent part.

In physics, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that deals with fluid flow the natural science of fluids (liquids and gases) in motion. It has several subdisciplines itself, including aerodynamics (the study of air and other gases in motion) and hydrodynamics (the study of 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 and reportedly modelling fission weapondetonation. Some of its principles are even used in traffic engineering, where traffic is treated as a continuous fluid. Fluid dynamics offers a systematic structurewhich underlies these practical disciplinesthat 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 calculating various properties of the fluid, such as 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, likemagnetohydrodynamics and hydrodynamic stability, both of which can also be applied to gases.[1]
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1 Equations of fluid dynamics

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1.1 Conservation laws 1.2 Compressible vs incompressible flow 1.3 Viscous vs inviscid flow 1.4 Steady vs unsteady flow 1.5 Laminar vs turbulent flow 1.6 Newtonian vs non-Newtonian fluids 1.7 Subsonic vs transonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows 1.8 Magnetohydrodynamics 1.9 Other approximations

2 Terminology in fluid dynamics

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2.1 Terminology in incompressible fluid dynamics 2.2 Terminology in compressible fluid dynamics

3 See also

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3.1 Fields of study 3.2 Mathematical equations and concepts 3.3 Types of fluid flow 3.4 Fluid properties 3.5 Fluid phenomena 3.6 Applications 3.7 Fluid dynamics journals 3.8 Miscellaneous

4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

Equations of fluid dynamics[edit]

The foundational axioms of fluid dynamics are the conservation laws, specifically, conservation of mass, conservation of linear momentum(also known as Newton's Second Law of Motion), and conservation of energy (also known as First Law of Thermodynamics). These are based on classical mechanics and are

modified inquantum 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. Fluids are composed of molecules that collide with one another and solid objects. However, the continuum assumption considers fluids to be continuous, rather than discrete. Consequently, properties such as density, pressure, temperature, and velocity are taken to be well-defined at infinitesimallysmall points, and are assumed to vary continuously from one point to another. The fact that the fluid is made up of discrete molecules is ignored. For fluids which are sufficiently dense to be a continuum, do not contain ionized species, and have velocities small in relation to the speed of light, the momentum equations for Newtonian fluidsare the NavierStokes equations, which is a non-linear set of differential equations that describes the flow of a fluid whose stress depends linearly on 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 a number of ways, all of which make them easier to solve. Some of them allow appropriate fluid dynamics problems to be solved in closed form. In addition to the mass, momentum, and energy conservation equations, a thermodynamical equation of state giving the pressure as a function of other thermodynamic variables for the fluid is required to completely specify the problem. An example of this would be the perfect gas equation of state:

where p is pressure, is density, Ru is the gas constant, M is the molar mass and T is temperature.

Conservation laws[edit]
Three conservation laws are used to solve fluid dynamics problems, and may be written in integral or differential form. Mathematical formulations of these conservation laws may be interpreted by considering the concept of a control volume. A control volume is a specified volume in space through which air can flow in and out. Integral formulations of the conservation laws consider the change in mass, momentum, or energy within the control volume. Differential formulations of the conservation laws apply Stokes' theorem to yield an expression which may be interpreted as the integral form of the law applied to an infinitesimal 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:

Above,

is the fluid density, u is a velocity vector, and t is time.

The left-hand side of the above expression contains a triple integral over the control volume, whereas the right-hand side contains a surface integral over the surface of the control volume. The differential form of the continuity equation is, by the divergence theorem:

Conservation of momentum: This equation applies Newton's second law of motion to the control volume, requiring that any change in momentum of the air within a control volume be due to the net flow of air into the volume and the action of external forces on the air within the volume. In the integral formulation of this equation, body forces here are represented by fbody, the body force per unit mass. Surface forces, such as viscous forces, are represented by , the net force due

to stresses on the control volume surface.

The differential form of the momentum conservation equation is as follows. Here, 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 on an internal flow.

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, it can be expressed as three scalar equations. The conservation of momentum equations for the compressible, viscous flow case are called the NavierStokes equations.

Conservation of energy: Although energy can be converted from one form to another, the total energy in a given closed system remains constant.

Above, h is enthalpy, k is the thermal conductivity of the fluid, T is temperature, and is the viscous dissipation function. The

viscous dissipation function governs the rate at which 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.[3] The expression on the left side is a material derivative.

Compressible vs incompressible flow[edit]

All fluids are compressible to some extent, that is, changes in pressure or temperature will result in 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 of a fluid parcel does not

change as it moves in the flow field, i.e.,

where D/Dt is the substantial 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 to be 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.

Viscous vs inviscid flow[edit]

Potential flow around a wing

Viscous problems are those in which fluid friction has significant effects on the fluid motion. The Reynolds number, which is a ratio between inertial and viscous forces, can be used to evaluate whether viscous or inviscid equations are appropriate to the problem. Stokes flow is flow at very low Reynolds numbers, Re<<1, such that inertial forces can be neglected compared to viscous forces. On the contrary, high Reynolds numbers indicate that the inertial forces are more significant than the viscous (friction) forces. Therefore, we may assume the flow to be an inviscid flow, an approximation in which we

neglect viscosity completely, compared to inertial terms. This idea can work fairly well when the Reynolds number is high. However, certain problems such as those involving solid boundaries, may require that the viscosity be included. Viscosity often cannot be neglected near solid boundaries because the no-slip condition can generate a thin region of large strain rate (known as Boundary layer) which enhances the effect of even a small amount of viscosity, and thus generating vorticity. Therefore, to calculate net forces on bodies (such as wings) we should use viscous flow equations. As illustrated by d'Alembert's paradox, a body in an inviscid fluid will experience no drag force. The standard equations of inviscid flow are the Euler equations. Another often used model, especially in computational fluid dynamics, is to use the Euler equations away from the body and the boundary layer equations, which incorporates viscosity, in a region close to the body. The Euler equations can be integrated along a streamline to get Bernoulli's equation.

When the flow is everywhere irrotational and inviscid, Bernoulli's equation can be used throughout the flow field. Such flows are called potential flows.

Steady vs unsteady flow[edit]

Hydrodynamics simulation of the RayleighTaylor instability [4]

When all the time derivatives of a flow field vanish, the flow is considered to be a steady flow . Steady-state flow refers to the condition where the fluid properties at a point in the system do not change over time. Otherwise, flow is called unsteady (also called transient[5]). Whether a particular flow is steady or unsteady, can depend on the chosen frame of reference. For instance, laminar flow over a sphere is steady in the

frame of reference that is stationary with respect to the sphere. In a frame of reference that is stationary with respect to a background flow, the flow is unsteady. Turbulent flows are unsteady by definition. A turbulent flow can, however, be statistically stationary. According to Pope:[6] The random field U(x,t) is statistically stationary if all statistics are invariant under a shift in time. This roughly means that all statistical properties are constant in time. Often, the mean field is the object of interest, and this is constant too in a statistically stationary flow. Steady flows are often more tractable than otherwise similar unsteady flows. The governing equations of a steady problem have one dimension fewer (time) than the governing equations of the same problem without taking advantage of the steadiness of the flow field.

Laminar vs turbulent flow[edit]

Turbulence is flow characterized by recirculation, eddies, and apparent randomness. Flow in which turbulence is not exhibited is called laminar. It should be noted, however, that the presence of eddies or recirculation alone does not necessarily indicate turbulent flowthese phenomena may be present in laminar flow as well. Mathematically, turbulent flow is often represented via a Reynolds decomposition, in which the flow is broken down into the sum of an average component and a perturbation component. It is believed that turbulent flows can be described well through the use of the NavierStokes equations. Direct numerical simulation (DNS), based on the NavierStokes equations, makes it possible to simulate turbulent flows at moderate Reynolds numbers. Restrictions depend on the power of the computer used and the efficiency of the solution algorithm. The results of DNS have been found to agree well with experimental data for some flows.[7] Most flows of interest have Reynolds numbers much too

high for DNS to be a viable option,[8] given the state of computational power for the next few decades. Any flight vehicle large enough to carry a human (L > 3 m), moving faster than 72 km/h (20 m/s) is well beyond the limit of DNS simulation (Re = 4 million). Transport aircraft wings (such as on an Airbus A300 or Boeing 747) have Reynolds numbers of 40 million (based on the wing chord). In order to solve these real-life flow problems, turbulence models will be a necessity for the foreseeable future. Reynolds-averaged NavierStokes equations (RANS) combined with turbulence modelling provides a model of the effects of the turbulent flow. Such a modelling mainly provides the additional momentum transfer by the Reynolds stresses, although the turbulence also enhances the heat and mass transfer. Another promising methodology is large eddy simulation (LES), especially in the guise of detached eddy simulation (DES)which is a combination of RANS turbulence modelling and large eddy simulation.

Newtonian vs nonNewtonian fluids[edit]

Sir Isaac Newton showed how stress and the rate of strain are very close to linearly related for many familiar fluids, such as water and air. These Newtonian fluids are modelled by a coefficient called viscosity, which depends on the specific fluid. However, some of the other materials, such as emulsions and slurries and some viscoelastic materials (e.g. blood, some polymers), have more complicated nonNewtonian stress-strain behaviours. These materials include sticky liquids such as latex, honey, and lubricants which are studied in the sub-discipline of rheology.

Subsonic vs transonic, supersonic and hypersonic flows[edit]

While many terrestrial flows (e.g. flow of water through a pipe) occur at low mach numbers, many flows of practical interest (e.g. in aerodynamics) occur at high fractions of the Mach Number

M=1 or in excess of it (supersonic flows). New phenomena occur at these Mach number regimes (e.g. shock waves for supersonic flow, transonic instability in a regime of flows with M nearly equal to 1, non-equilibrium chemical behaviour due to ionization in hypersonic flows) and it is necessary to treat each of these flow regimes separately.

Magnetohydrodyna mics[edit]
Main article: Magnetohydrodynamic s Magnetohydrodynamics is the multi-disciplinary study of the flow of electrically conducting fluids in electromagnetic fields. Examples of such fluids include plasmas, liquid metals, and salt water. The fluid flow equations are solved simultaneously with Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.

Other approximations[edit]
There are a large number of other possible approximations to fluid dynamic problems. Some of the more commonly used are listed below.

The Boussinesq approximation neglects variations in density except to calculate buoyancy force s. It is often used in free convection problems where density changes are small.

Lubrication theory and HeleShaw flow exploits the large aspect ratio of the domain to show that certain terms in the equations are small and so can be neglected.

Slender-body theory is a methodology used in Stokes flow problems to estimate the force on, or flow field around, a long slender object in a viscous fluid.

The shallow-water equations can be used to describe a layer of relatively inviscid fluid with a free surface, in which surface gradients are small.

The Boussinesq equations are applicable to surface waves on thicker layers of fluid and with steeper surface slopes.

Darcy's law is used for flow in porous media, and works with variables averaged over several pore-widths.

In rotating systems, the quasi-geostrophic approximation assumes an almost perfect balance between pressure gradients and the Coriolis force. It is useful in the study of atmospheric dynamics.

Terminology in fluid dynamics[edit]

The concept of pressure is central to the study of both fluid statics and fluid dynamics. A pressure can be identified for every point in a body of fluid, regardless of whether the fluid is in motion or not. Pressure can be measured using an aneroid, Bourdon tube, mercury column, or various other methods. Some of the terminology that is necessary in the study of fluid dynamics is not found in other similar areas of study. In particular, some of the terminology used in fluid dynamics is not used influid statics.

Terminology in incompressible fluid dynamics[edit]

The concepts of total pressure and dynamic pressure arise from Bernoulli's equation and are significant in the study of all fluid flows. (These two pressures are not pressures in the usual sensethey cannot be measured using an aneroid, Bourdon tube or mercury column.) To avoid potential ambiguity when referring to pressure in fluid dynamics, many authors use the term static pressure to distinguish it from total pressure and dynamic pressure. Static pressure is identical to pressure and can be identified for every point in a fluid flow field. In Aerodynamics, L.J. Clancy writes:[9] To distinguish it from the total and dynamic pressures, the actual pressure of the fluid, which is associated not with its motion but with its state, is often referred to as the static pressure, but where the term pressure alone is used it refers to this static pressure. A point in a fluid flow where the flow has come to rest (i.e.

speed is equal to zero adjacent to some solid body immersed in the fluid flow) is of special significance. It is of such importance that it is given a special name a stagnation point. The static pressure at the stagnation point is of special significance and is given its own name stagnation pressure. In incompressible flows, the stagnation pressure at a stagnation point is equal to the total pressure throughout the flow field.

Terminology in compressible fluid dynamics[edit]

In a compressible fluid, such as air, the temperature and density are essential when determining the state of the fluid. In addition to the concept of total pressure (also known as stagnation pressure), the concepts of total (or stagnation) temperature and total (or stagnation) density are also essential in any study of compressible fluid flows. To avoid potential ambiguity when referring to temperature and density, many authors use the terms static temperature and static density. Static temperature is

identical to temperature; and static density is identical to density; and both can be identified for every point in a fluid flow field. The temperature and density at a stagnation point are called stagnation temperature and stagnation density. A similar approach is also taken with the thermodynamic properties of compressible fluids. Many authors use the terms total (or stagnation) enthalpy and total (or stagnation) entropy. The terms static enthalpy and static entropy appear to be less common, but where they are used they mean nothing more than enthalpy and entropy respectively, and the prefix "static" is being used to avoid ambiguity with their 'total' or 'stagnation' counterparts. Because the 'total' flow conditions are defined by isentropically bringing the fluid to rest, the total (or stagnation) entropy is by definition always equal to the "static" entropy.

See also[edit]
Fields of study[edit]

Acoustic theory

Aerodynamics Aeroelasticity Aeronautics Computational fluid dynamics

Flow measurement Geophysical fluid dynamics

Hemodynamics Hydraulics Hydrology Hydrostatics Electrohydrodynamics Magnetohydrodynamics Metafluid dynamics Rheology Quantum hydrodynamics

Mathematical equations and concepts[edit]

Airy wave theory Bernoulli's equation Reynolds transport theorem

BenjaminBonaMahony equation

Boussinesq approximation (buoyancy)

Boussinesq approximation (water waves)

Conservation laws Euler equations (fluid dynamics)

Different Types of Boundary Conditions in Fluid Dynamics

Darcy's law Dynamic pressure Fluid statics HagenPoiseuille equation

Helmholtz's theorems Kirchhoff equations Knudsen equation Manning equation Mild-slope equation Morison equation NavierStokes equations Oseen flow Pascal's law Poiseuille's law Potential flow Pressure Static pressure Pressure head Relativistic Euler equations

Reynolds decomposition Stokes flow Stokes stream function Stream function Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines

Types of fluid flow[edit]

Cavitation Compressible flow Couette flow Free molecular flow

Incompressible flow Inviscid flow Isothermal flow Laminar flow Open channel flow Secondary flow Stream thrust averaging Superfluidity Supersonic Transient flow Transonic Turbulent flow Two-phase flow

Fluid properties[edit]

Density List of hydrodynamic instabilities

Newtonian fluid Non-Newtonian fluid Surface tension Viscosity Vapour pressure Compressibility

Fluid phenomena[edit]

Boundary layer Coanda effect Convection cell Convergence/Bifurcation Darwin drift Drag (force) Hydrodynamic stability Kaye effect Lift (force) Magnus effect

Ocean surface waves Rossby wave Shock wave Soliton Stokes drift Turbulence Thread breakup Venturi effect Vortex Vorticity Water hammer Wave drag

Applications[edit]

Acoustics Aerodynamics Cryosphere science Fluid power Hydraulic machinery Meteorology Naval architecture Oceanography Plasma physics Pneumatics 3D computer graphics

Fluid dynamics journals[edit]

Annual Reviews in Fluid Mechanics

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Physics of Fluids Experiments in Fluids European Journal of Mechanics B: Fluids

Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computers and Fluids International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids

Flow, Turbulence and Combustion

Miscellaneous[edit]

Important publications in fluid dynamics

Isosurface KeuleganCarpenter number

Rotating tank Sound barrier Beta plane Immersed boundary method

Bridge scour Finite volume method for unsteady flow

Notes[edit]
1. Jump up^ Eckert, Michael (2006). The Dawn of Fluid Dynamics: A Discipline Between Science and Technology. Wiley. p. ix. ISBN 3-52740513-5. 2. Jump up^ Anderson, J.D., Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 4th

Ed., McGrawHill, 2007. 3. Jump up^ White, F.M., Viscous Fluid Flow, McGrawHill, 1974. 4. Jump up^ Shengtai Li, Hui Li "Parallel AMR Code for Compressible MHD or HD Equations" (Los Alamos National Laboratory) [1] 5. Jump up^ Transient state or unsteady state? 6. Jump up^ See Pope (2000), page 75. 7. Jump up^ See, for example, Schlatter et al, Phys. Fluids 21, 051702 (2009); doi:10.1063/1. 3139294 8. Jump up^ See Pope (2000), page 344. 9. Jump up^ Clancy, L.J. Aerodynamics, page 21

References[edit]

Acheson, D. J. (1990). Elementary Fluid Dynamics. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19859679-0.

Batchelor, G. K. (1967). An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521-66396-2.

Chanson, H. (2009). Applied Hydrodynamics: An Introduction to Ideal and Real Fluid Flows. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Leiden, The Netherlands, 478 pages. ISBN 978-0-41549271-3.

Clancy, L. J. (1975). Aerodynamics. London: Pitman Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-27301120-0.

Lamb, Horace (1994). Hydrodyn amics (6th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-52145868-4. Originally published in 1879, the 6th extended edition appeared first in 1932.

Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. (1987). Fluid Mechanics. Course of Theoretical Physics (2nd ed.). Pergamon Press. ISBN 0-75062767-0.

Milne-Thompson, L. M. (1968). Theoretical Hydrodynamics (5th ed.). Macmillan. Originally published in 1938.

Pope, Stephen B. (2000). Turbulent Flows. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-52159886-9.

Shinbrot, M. (1973). Lectures on Fluid Mechanics. Gordon and Breach. ISBN 0-67701710-3.

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