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LAGRANGIAN & EULERIANDESCRIPTIONS
• keeps track of the position and velocity of individual particles
5.
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LAGRANGIAN & EULERIANDESCRIPTIONS
• The Lagrangian approach is difficult to apply to fluid flow; it requires infinite number
of equations for infinite number of particles!
• The field variable at a particular location at a particular time is the value of the
variable for whichever fluid particle happens to occupy that location at that time.
• The flow properties are defined as field variables, functions of space and time.
Flow domain
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EXAMPLE
A steady, incompressible,two-dimensional
velocity field is given by
Determine if there are any stagnation points in
this flow field and, if so, where?
At any stagnation point:
𝑢 𝑣
⃗
𝑉 =(𝑢 ,𝑣)=(0.5+0.8 𝑥) ⃗
𝑖+(1.5−0.8 𝑦)⃗
𝑗
𝑢=0.5+0.8 𝑥=0→𝑥=−0.625m
𝑣=1.5−0.8 𝑦=0→ 𝑦=1.875m
Solution
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STREAMLINE
A curve thatis everywhere tangent to the instantaneous local velocity vector.
Streamlines cannot be directly observed experimentally except in
steady flow fields.
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EXAMPLE 4-4
For thefollowing steady, incompressible 2-D velocity field, plot the
streamlines in the right half of the flow ():
𝑢=0.5+0.8 𝑥 ,𝑣=1.5 − 0.8 𝑦
solution
ln (0.5+0.8 𝑥)
0.8
=
ln (1.5 − 0.8 𝑦)
− 0.8
+𝐶
ln
1
(0.5+0.8 𝑥)
=ln (1.5 −0.8 𝑦)+ln 𝐶
⃗
𝑉 =(𝑢 ,𝑣)=(0.5+0.8 𝑥) ⃗
𝑖+(1.5−0.8 𝑦)⃗
𝑗
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𝐶
0.5+0.8𝑥
=1.5 − 0.8𝑦
The last equation draws a family of
streamlines, each of them passes through a
different point in the flow field and hence
corresponds to a different value of the
constant .
𝑦 =1.875 −
𝐶
0.8 ( 0.5+0.8 𝑥 )
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− ln [𝜌1𝑢1+(𝜌1 𝐶𝑢+𝑢1 𝐶𝜌 )𝑥+𝐶𝑢 𝐶𝜌 𝑥
2
]=ln 𝑦+𝐶
𝑦=
𝐶
𝜌1𝑢1+( 𝜌1 𝐶𝑢 +𝑢1 𝐶𝜌 ) 𝑥+𝐶𝑢 𝐶𝜌 𝑥
2
To get the height () at the duct exit, find the
streamline of the top wall:
At
At
𝐶 =2 𝜌 1 𝑢1
𝑦=0.9412m