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    This document discusses steady, laminar flow between parallel plates. It explains that for flow between infinite parallel plates, the fluid particles only move in the x direction parallel to the plates, with no variation in y or z. This allows the Navier-Stokes equations to be solved, resulting in a parabolic velocity profile and equations to calculate the volumetric flow rate and maximum velocity as functions of pressure drop and plate spacing.

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    This document discusses steady, laminar flow between parallel plates. It explains that for flow between infinite parallel plates, the fluid particles only move in the x direction parallel to the plates, with no variation in y or z. This allows the Navier-Stokes equations to be solved, resulting in a parabolic velocity profile and equations to calculate the volumetric flow rate and maximum velocity as functions of pressure drop and plate spacing.

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    This document discusses steady, laminar flow between parallel plates. It explains that for flow between infinite parallel plates, the fluid particles only move in the x direction parallel to the plates, with no variation in y or z. This allows the Navier-Stokes equations to be solved, resulting in a parabolic velocity profile and equations to calculate the volumetric flow rate and maximum velocity as functions of pressure drop and plate spacing.

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    Fluid Mechanics-II

    (Solutions of Navier-Stokes Equations)


    Lecture # 06
    Dr Zubair Sajid
    Overview
    • A principal difficulty in solving the Navier–Stokes equations is because of
    their nonlinearity arising from the convective acceleration terms.
    • There are no general analytical schemes for solving nonlinear partial
    differential equations.
    • For most practical flow problems, fluid particles do have accelerated
    motion as they move from one location to another in the flow field.
    • There are a few special cases for which the convective acceleration
    vanishes because of the nature of the geometry of the flow system.

    2 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06


    Steady, Laminar Flow between Fixed Parallel Plates
    • Flow between the two horizontal, infinite parallel plates, purely axial flow

    • For this geometry the fluid particles move in the x direction parallel to the
    plates, and there is no velocity in the y or z direction
    • There would be no variation of u in the z direction for infinite plates
    • Steady flow and u=u(y)
    • Incompressible flow
    3 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06
    4 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06
    Steady, Laminar Flow between Fixed Parallel Plates
    Navier-stokes equation

    5 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06


    Velocity profile
    6 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06
    The volume rate of flow, q, passing between the plates

    volume rate of flow

    • The pressure gradient is negative, since the pressure decreases in the direction of
    flow.
    • If we let ∆𝑝 represent the pressure drop between two points l distance apart, then

    volume rate of flow


    7 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06
    • The details of the steady laminar flow between infinite
    parallel plates are completely predicted by this solution
    to the Navier–Stokes equations.
    • For example, if the pressure gradient, viscosity, and plate
    Max velocity umax at y=0
    spacing are specified, following quantities can be
    determined.

    Maximum velocity

    8 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06


    Practice Problem
    Q1

    Q2

    6.85, 6.86, 6.87, 6.90, 6.93

    9 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06


    10 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06
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    12 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06
    Velocity Potential
    • In irrotational flows, the velocity can be written as a gradient of a scalar function ∅ called
    velocity potential.

    • Considering the equation of continuity for an incompressible fluid.

    and substituting the expressions for u, v and w in terms of ∅,

    • Thus, the velocity potential satisfies the Laplace equation.


    • Any function f which satisfies the Laplace equation is a possible
    irrotational fluid flow case.

    13 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06


    Velocity Potential
    • Lines of constant ∅ are called equipotential lines and it can be shown that these
    lines will form orthogonal grids with 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚lines.
    • This fact is used in the construction of flow nets for fluid flow analysis

    14 |Dr. Zubair Sajid | Fluid Mechanics-II | Lecture # 06

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