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Incompressible Flow I
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Part 1 of 2 in the Incompressible Flow series. Topics in this product include vorticity and circulation, streamfunctions and velocity potential, complex potential, and classic potential-flow solutions like the Rankine half-body, Rankine oval, and a stationary vortex in a uniform stream.
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AerodynamicsPage-by-page contents
Aerodynamics
Page-by-page contents
- 01Basic definitions: aerodynamic forces, inviscid vs viscous flow, vorticity, fluid angular velocity
- 02Vorticity, polar, creation of vorticity, how vorticity moves through a fluid
- 03Circulation, Stokes theorem, vortex motion, forced vortex
- 04Free vortex, singularity, Rankine vortex, equations of motion
- 05Example calculation of force on a nozzle, example of how flow expands in a duct
- 06Mass conservation and momentum equation derivation in 2D inviscid flow
- 07Streamline motion for a steady incompressible inviscid 2D flow
- 08Streamfunction, streamlines, Laplace's equation
- 09Velocity potential, equipotential lines
- 10Complex potential, 3 basic solutions of 2D irrotational flow, uniform stream, source or sink at origin
- 11Free irrotational vortex, superposition of solutions
- 12Example: Rankine half body, example: Rankine oval
- 13Example: stationary vortex in uniform stream