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Question | Answer |
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What is the lagrangian frame of reference? | A fluids property as it changes in time |
What is the Eulerisn frame of reference? | A fluids property at a particular position in space. |
What is a pathline? | The history of the position of a single particle. |
What frame of reference is a pathline? | Lagrangian |
What is a streakline? | A line connecting all the particles that have passed through the same point at an instant in time. |
What is a streamline? | A line which is tangent to all velocity vectors? |
What frame of reference is a streamline? | Eulerian |
How do you derive the equation of a streamline in 2D? | Solve the following equation ∫v dx = ∫u dy |
How do you derive the equation of a streamline in 3D? | Solve the following equation dy/v = dx/u = dz/w |
What are the characteristics of a steady flow? | Is not time dependent and streamlines, streamlines and pathlines are the same. |
What is acceleration? | Rate of change of velocity a = dV/dt where V = f(x,y,z,t) |
What is convective acceleration? | Acceleration due to a fluid particles change in position in space. = u dV/dx + v dV/dy + w dV/dz Eulerian |
What is local/temporal acceleration? | Acceleration due to time. = dV/dt Lagrangian |
What is a stagnation point? | A point where a fluids velocity is equal to 0. |
When is flow parallel to an axis? | When the velocity is 0 in other directions. |