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Advanced Fluid Mechanics

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CONTENTS

1. Conventions and Notation : Volume forces and surface

forces acting on a fluid, Elementary properties of Tensors
and Vectors, Direction cosines, Stress tensor in a fluid at
rest, Mechanical equilibrium of a fluid, Phenomenon of
buoyancy.
2. Kinematics of the Flow Field : Specification of the flow
field, Eulerian and Lagrangian schemes, Streamlines,
Streamtube, Conservation of mass, Condition of
incompressibility, Analysis of the relative motion of a fluid
near a point, Shearing motion, Rate of angular distortion,
Vorticity, Singularities in the rate of expansion, Sources and
sinks.
3. Fluid dynamics : The equation of motion, Stress tensor for a
fluid in motion, No-slip condition, The Navier-Stokes
equations, Changes in the internal energy of a fluid in
motion, Bernoulli’s theorem for steady flow of a frictionless
non-conducting fluid.
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