Inviscid Flow and Bernoulli

This section covers lecture 5.

Readings

Textbooks

Reading in: Panton, Ronald L. Incompressible Flow. 4th ed. Wiley, 2013. ISBN: 9781118013434. [Preview with Google Books]

• Chapter 7: Some Incompressible Flow Patterns
  • 7.1: Pressure-Driven Flow in a Slot
  • 7.2: Mechanical Energy, Head Loss, and Bernoulli Equation

Reading in: Kundu, Pijush K., and Ira M. Cohen. Fluid Mechanics. 6th ed. Academic Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780124059351.

• Chapter 4: Conservation Laws
  • 4.3: Stream Functions
  • 4.9: Special Forms of the Equations; Angular Momentum Principle for a Stationary Control Volume; Bernoulli Equations; Neglect of Gravity in Constant Density Flows; The Boussinesq Approximation; Summary

Additional Readings

• Professor Jane Wang's website on dragonfly flight and the role of vorticity shedding in fluttering and tumbling.
• Vortex Ring Gun website. A quick web-search shows that these "non-lethal weapons" are still actively being considered.
• NASA Aircraft Complete Wingtip Vortex Study.

Class Notes

• Equation of Motion in Streamline Coordinates (PDF)
• Unsteady Bernoulli Equation (PDF)

Video Seen During Class

• Pressure Fields and Fluid Acceleration Video and Film Notes (PDF - 1.3MB)

Assignment

Problem Set 3