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Navier - Stokes Equation PDF

The document discusses three types of fluid flow: 1) Navier-Stokes equation describes viscous fluid flow and the forces acting on it. 2) Plane Couette flow describes fluid between two parallel plates, with the top plate moving and bottom at rest, creating a parabolic velocity profile. 3) Poiseuille flow describes the laminar flow of fluid through a circular pipe, where pressure gradients create a parabolic velocity profile across the radius.

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Navier - Stokes Equation PDF

The document discusses three types of fluid flow: 1) Navier-Stokes equation describes viscous fluid flow and the forces acting on it. 2) Plane Couette flow describes fluid between two parallel plates, with the top plate moving and bottom at rest, creating a parabolic velocity profile. 3) Poiseuille flow describes the laminar flow of fluid through a circular pipe, where pressure gradients create a parabolic velocity profile across the radius.

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Navier – Stokes
Equation

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Viscous Force : Due to the stresses acting on the sided of the fluid
element, both in the normal and tangential directions.

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Flow between two parallel walls


(Plane Couette Flow)
• Gives simplest solution of Navier-Stokes equations
• Steady flow of a viscous fluid between two parallel walls separated by a
distance h.
• Assumed that horizontal dimension of wall (along x -direction) are very large
compared to h
• Therefore flow is independent of x coordinate and depends only on the transverse
coordinate (y coordinate).
• Two wall occupy the planes y=0 and y=h
• Motion in x direction is due to pressure gradient or imposed uniform motion
of one wall w.r.t other or combination of these two.
• Assume boundary at y =0 is at rest and other boundary (y=h) moves with
velocity U in positive x-direction.

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• Motion is independent of x and z coordinates


•v=0; at two boundaries
• No flow in z direction. Therefore w = 0
• u is the only non zero component of velocity.
• From Navier-Stokes Euation;

• Subject to the boundary conditions;


• u (0) = 0, u (h) = 0
• p is independent of y and z. Therefore;
• Solution of; is;

• The pressure gradient gives rise to a parabolic profile and the relative
velocity between two walls generates a linear shear flow

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Flow through a pipe (Poiseuille Flow)


• Laminar flow of fluid in a tube of circular cross section.
• Determination of pressure drops in pipes
• Assume that x-axis coincides with axis of the tube.
• Velocity of fluid in x direction i.e. u = u (r) depends only on radial
coordinate r
• r2 = x2 + y2 , v = w = 0
• Then Navier-Stokes equation can be written as;

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