PHY 357 — FLUID DYNAMICS
BSc BSc Physics · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Real and ideal fluids. Velocity of a fluid at a point. Streamlines and pathlines; steady and unsteady flows. The velocity potential. The vorticity vectors. Local and particle rates of change; the equation of continuity. Acceleration of a fluid. Pressure at a point in a fluid at rest and in a moving fluid. Conditions at a boundary of two inviscid immiscible fluids. Euler’s equations of motion. Bernoulli’s equation. Steady motion under conservative body forces. Axially symmetric flows. Bessel functions. The wave and heat equations in one dimension. Solution by separation of variables. The Laplace equation. Solution by separation of variables.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 300
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