The quantitative study of how fluids (gases and liquids) move.
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Wave propagation in an incompressible flow
Incompressible approximation of fluid flow is usually known to be lame in modeling the propagation of any disturbance in it, predicting a speed equal to infinity for the propagation of the ...
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Query about Bernoulli's principle
We know that the lower atmosphere has high pressure and as we go up, the pressure decreases, if it's so then why doesn't all gases fly up into the upper atmosphere from the lower following Bernoulli's ...
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Explanation for the next steps of lamb-chaplygin dipole
Can someone explain me the steps please (I mean steps 2 and 3)? I didn't understand it.
1) Any flow field represented by a stream function $\psi$(x,r), defined as:
v = - $\frac{\partial ...
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Can a divider “laminarize” turbulent flow and thus reduce friction?
Looking at the Moody chart I think to myself, the friction factor doesn't decrease much at all with Reynolds number after a certain point. I wonder if laminar flow is more efficient in a sense, and ...
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What's the surface area of a liquid? How does evaporation increase if the surface area of a liquid is increased?
Wikipedia says that a substance that has a larger surface area will evaporate faster, as there are more surface molecules that are able to escape. I think the rate of evaporation should decrease as ...
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Whistle Physics
I'm looking for a simple explanation of how a whistle operates. I know that forcing air over a sharp lip can set up a wave in a resonating cavity, but how? "Most whistles operate due to a feedback ...
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Measuring acceleration of a bus using water between two sheets of glass
I was riding a bus one day and noticed that the double windows had some water between them. As the bus accelerated, the water collected to the sides, first forming a trapezoid and then a right ...
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Calculating the dimensional wall-normal coordinate for a self-similar compressible boundary layer using Levy-Lees transformation
How can I convert my self-similar boundary layer solution that is a function of the nondimensional wall-normal coordinate $\eta$ to be a function of dimensional $y$? For instance, if I determine from ...
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Unclear how heat interacts with Navier Stokes
I am playing around with an Navier stokes solver and I'm having trouble introducing heat.
Am I right in thinking this would be introduced in the ${\bf f}$ term of ${\partial{\bf u}\over\partial t} = ...
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Why does string not wick down?
I regularly drink tea at work and I often reuse the tea bags (yes I know I'm a cheapskate). Yesterday afternoon I used a tea bag once and kept it in the cup in case I wanted another cup before I ...
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continuity equation for a fluid with variable density
I am trying to derive the equation for buoyancy frequency in a stratified fluid and am struggling with some of the equations. I have a limited background in fluid dynamics so I basically just need ...
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Is sonoluminescence relevant to the behaviour of Navier-Stokes (or converse)?
More precisely, could Sonoluminescence be a singularity of Navier-Stokes(NS)?
Is there some other connection that might be interesting, or is it completely irrelevant?
Wiki page mentions NS, but says ...
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Oscillations of a fluid particle in a stably stratified fluid
Could anyone help me work through the following set of equations:
I found these online at
http://marian.fsik.cvut.cz/~bodnar/PragueSum_2012/Staquet_1-2.pdf
and I'm trying to work through them. I ...
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How to calculate pressure field in potential flow
I haven't ever studied fluid dynamics before and may mix something here, so please, be patient :).
Given flow potential of the form (homogeneus flow over a dipole):
$$ \phi = u_\infty x ...
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When moving something by entrainment in a fluid stream, where does the energy come from?
The particular Something I had in mind here would be air bubbles that are pulled downwards against their buoyancy by a stream of water falling down a shaft. The work required to push those bubbles ...
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In a column of rising hot air, is the velocity higher at the top?
Since the movement of the air is induced by buoyancy, i. e. there's a constant force acting on the air, so I would expect the velocity to increase during ascent, much like an object falling down due ...
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Sideways motion between a vertical launch from a planet and landing [duplicate]
I saw a video some days ago (Hello Kitty in Space) of a schoolgirl successfully launching a balloon into space which later popped and landed ~47 km from launch site.
If I vertically launch an object ...
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How fast does water fall in the middle of a very very thick waterfall?
Let me create a very artificial experimental set up. Take a bathtub the size of Delaware and suspend it a mile above the ground. Fill it with water (though I'm not sure to what depth - and it might ...
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Water vs Milkshake being sucked through a straw
Consider water in a glass being sucked through a straw. The water rises up in the straw because of a pressure gradient introduced by the sucking action.
Now, change the liquid from water to something ...
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How to estimate the Kolmogorov length scale
My understanding of Kolmogorov scales doesn't really go beyond this poem:
Big whirls have little whirls that feed on their velocity, and little whirls have lesser whirls and so on to viscosity. ...
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What causes ballpoint pens to write intermittently?
After a while, a ball point pen doesn't write very well anymore. It will write for a little distance, then leave a gap, then maybe write in little streaks, then maybe write properly again. It seems ...
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What is enstrophy?
In turbulence, the enstrophy of a flow in a domain $\mathcal{D} \subset \mathbb{R}^{D}$
$$
\mathcal{E} = \int_{\mathcal{D}} |\vec{\nabla} \times \, \vec{v}|^2 d^{D}x
$$
appears sometimes, it's cool ...
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Fluid flow through a diverging pipe
Relevant diagram loosely based on my real problem:
Description of problem: A fan creates a pressure sink that drives fluid flow through a gently diverging pipe (please note that the diagram is not ...
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Satellite droplets in a breaking liquid jet
The famous example of a dripping faucet is an example of a Rayleigh-Plateau instability in which there is a certain jet radius below which perturbations on the surface will grow to break the jet into ...
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A fly in an accelerating car
A fly is flying around in a car, the fly never touches any surface in the car only fly’s around in the air inside the car. The car accelerates. does the fly slam in to the rear window. or does the fly ...
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How does the correlation length of weather emerge?
The question is pretty simple: If I know the weather where I stand, I can estimate the weather 5 meters or 1 km away away pretty well, but I'll have a hard time guessing what the weather is, say, 50 ...
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A simple logical problem regarding pressure and force
Suppose a 2 meter long pipe, with area of cross section is $1 m^2$. The pipe is vertically placed, with the bottom end closed. Inside the pipe, at the closed bottom end, there is $1 m^3$ of air, ...
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Compressible fluid flow through a branched pipe junctions
Backdrop: Designing a dust extraction system (LEV) with a branched junction.
What principles allow for the calculation of volume flow rate and pressure at the inlets if the volume flow rate and ...
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Best way to move teaspoon to dissolve sugar in a cup of tea
I know that there is asked questions about something like cooling down cope of coffee..etc, but this one is little different.
My friend was watching TV program of English eating etiquette, and they ...
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Fluid flow in a hollow spring(helix)
Liquid flowing in a long hollow spring(helix). Any effects on the flow rate etc when the spring is stretched or compressed?
When the stretching or compressing of spring is done at brisk speeds the ...
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Can silicon droplets bouncing on a vibrating surface be a model for Quantum Mechanics?
In
this video on
youtube
it is claimed that silicon droplets bouncing on a vibrating surface show behaviour in analogy to particle/wave duality in Quantum Mechanics.
Is this true? Did they ...
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How do I intuit viscosity in a rotating fluid?
Suppose I have two plates with a viscous fluid in between. I slide them in the same direction (a direction in their own plane), one at $5 \,\text{m/s}$ and the other at $6 \,\text{m/s}$. Due to the ...
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Gravity duals to Navier Stokes and interpretation of non linear contributions
I have been reading the paper The Incompressible Non-Relativistic Navier-Stokes Equation from Gravity. In it they state,
"An instability, if it occurs, must necessarily break a symmetry ...
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Can wind blowing on smooth water create speckle interference patterns?
On a calm smooth lake, or even a large rain puddle, I've seen transient rough patches on the surface suddenly appear and disappear, and sometimes move across the water some distance before ...
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Where can I check a solution to 3D Navier Stokes?
A few years ago I developed a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations and as of yet have not been able to locate a similar version of the solution. I would like to know if anyone has seen a solution ...
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Swimming and forces
I was told that the total integral of the stress over the surface of a swimmer (i.e. the total force exerted by the swimmer on the fluid) always vanishes, because there are no external forces applied ...
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Lamb-Chaplygin dipole
There is an interesting issue of hydrodynamics: whirlpools.
I want to learn about the Lamb-Chaplygin dipole.
Lamb-Chaplygin dipole corresponds to a steady solution of the two dimensional Euler ...
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The viscous force between the layers of liquid is same, then why there is variation in the velocities of its layers?
I have learned in my textbook that when the liquid flows the bottom layer of the liquid never moves because of friction, but the upper layers move with increasing velocities how it is possible if the ...
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Sound level of organ pipe driven by helium
The sound pressure level of an organ pipe is a function of the gas flow rate delivered to the pipe. Source
Would the sound level of an organ pipe driven by helium be lower than that of a pipe driven ...
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Stat mech explanation for separation of one liquid from another in gravity?
If one mixes two distinct ideal gases above the Earth's surface, one with a higher molecular mass than the other, then at equilibrium, their number density gradients will be such that at low heights, ...
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Is it wrong to associate non-isotropic flow high with Reynolds-Number and is there a better metric?
IT is often stated the flow with high Re is not isotropic, meaning there is no uniform or dominant direction of the flow. But this seems wrong to me - -while there's certainly cases where no dominant ...
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Disregarding drag force that affects pop-up lightweight ball
Is it possible to disregard drag force of water with no viscosity that affects lightweight pop-up ball (its weight is assumed to be zero)? There is a discussion, on which I consider that although ...
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How much effect does the Bernoulli effect have on lift?
I understand that the Bernoulli effect is a flawed explanation for the cause of lift, and does not cause much at all, but how much?
Is there any experimental data on the force caused by the ...
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Why does smoke go inside the car if the back door is open?
Inspired by another question I wanted to ask about phenomenon that I've experienced.
We had a van with separate trunk deprtment (similar looking one below) to transport things. But some of the things ...
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Turboshaft Turbine Mathematical Model
Are there any simplified mathematical models for how two gas coupled turbines (also called a free power turbine) should interact with one another as the speed of the driving turbine changes.
(i.e.) ...
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Wrinkling paint - soluto/thermocapillarity - is it due to the primer or solvent [closed]
This is really a one-and-a-half part question.
I know that when paint is mixed with a solvent or used with a primer, it sometimes wrinkles. As I understand, a key physical phenomena here is a ...
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Why does smoke go out the window of the car - and what if there's wind blowing instead of the car moving?
When driving a car while smoking with the window open (safety and legal issues aside), I've noticed that the smoke tends to go outside the window.
Why does the smoke go outside?
If the car is ...
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How does liquid in a ball affect its rotational acceleration down a ramp?
Suppose we have a shell with mass $M$ and radius $R$. If we let that roll without slipping down a ramp of angle theta to the horizontal, we can easily find the acceleration of the shell the instant ...
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How can two seas not mix?
How can two seas not mix? I think this is commonly known and the explanation everyone gives is "because they have different densities".
What I get is that they eventually will mix, but this process ...
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How does a hinge affect the amount of a submerged material?
Suppose I have a rod that has a density of $X <1$. If I were to submerge that rod in water (density 1), I would expect $X$ of the rod to be below water and $1-X$ of it to be above water (simple ...
