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Lecture 5 Tutorial

1. The document provides information and calculation problems regarding two-dimensional, steady, incompressible fluid flow. It asks the reader to calculate stagnation points, material accelerations, pressure changes, and fluid accelerations for specified velocity fields describing duct and converging channel flows. 2. Additional questions generate analytical expressions for streamlines based on given velocity fields, and ask the reader to identify whether visualizations are showing streamlines, streaklines, pathlines, or timelines by explaining the experimental setup used to generate the images. 3. Calculations and analyses of fluid flows, streamlines, and flow visualizations are provided to build understanding of fundamental fluid mechanics concepts.

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Lecture 5 Tutorial

1. The document provides information and calculation problems regarding two-dimensional, steady, incompressible fluid flow. It asks the reader to calculate stagnation points, material accelerations, pressure changes, and fluid accelerations for specified velocity fields describing duct and converging channel flows. 2. Additional questions generate analytical expressions for streamlines based on given velocity fields, and ask the reader to identify whether visualizations are showing streamlines, streaklines, pathlines, or timelines by explaining the experimental setup used to generate the images. 3. Calculations and analyses of fluid flows, streamlines, and flow visualizations are provided to build understanding of fundamental fluid mechanics concepts.

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PART 1

1. A steady, two-dimensional velocity field is given by

Calculate the location of the stagnation point.

2. Consider steady, incompressible, two-dimensional flow through a converging duct (Figure 1). A
simple approximate velocity field for this flow is

where U0 is the horizontal speed at x = 0. Note that this equation ignores viscous effects along the walls
but is a reasonable approximation throughout the majority of the flow field. Calculate the material
acceleration for fluid particles passing through this duct. Give your answer in two ways: (1) as
acceleration components ax and ay and (2) as acceleration vector 𝑎⃗.

Figure 1

3. Converging duct flow is modeled by the steady, two- dimensional velocity field of Prob. 2. The
pressure field is given by

where P0 is the pressure at x = 0. Generate an expression for the rate of change of pressure following a
fluid particle.

4. For the velocity field of Prob. 4, calculate the fluid acceleration along the diffuser centerline as a
function of x and the given parameters. For L = 1.56 m, uentrance = 24.3 m/s, and uexit = 16.8 m/s, calculate
the acceleration at x = 0 and x = 1.0 m.
PART 2

1. Consider the following steady, incompressible, two-dimensional velocity field:

(a) Generate an analytical expression for the flow streamlines and draw several streamlines in the
upper-right quadrant from x = 0 to 5 and y = 0 to 6.
(b) Generate a velocity vector plot in the upper-right quadrant from x = 0 to 5 and y = 0 to 6.

2. Consider the visualization of ground vortex flow in Figure 2. Are we seeing streamlines, streaklines,
pathlines, or timelines? Explain.

Figure 2: Visualization of ground vortex flow. A high-speed round air jet impinges on the ground in the
presence of a free-stream flow of air from left to right. (The ground is at the bottom of the picture.) The portion
of the jet that travels upstream forms a recirculating flow known as a ground vortex. The visualization is
produced by a smoke wire mounted vertically to the left of the field of view.

3. Consider the visualization of flow over a sphere in Figure 3. Are we seeing streamlines, streaklines,
pathlines, or timelines? Explain.

Figure 3: Visualization of flow over a sphere at a Reynolds number of 15,000. The visualization is produced by
a time exposure of air bubbles in water.

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