INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM
DEPARTMENT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

AE463 ADVANCED FLUID MECHANICS : ASSIGNMENT – 2

Last date of submission : 28 September 2017

1. Consider a steady, incompressible, pressure-driven, fully-developed laminar flow of a Newtonian

fluid through a duct with rectangular cross-section. Without using the symmetry assumption,
derive an expression for the velocity field and hence determine shear stress and vorticity fields.
Also, find an expression for volume flow rate.

2. Consider a steady, incompressible, pressure-driven, fully-developed laminar flow of a Newtonian

fluid through a duct with equilateral triangle as the cross-section. Obtain an expression for the
steady-state velocity field.