Chapter 8
Stream
Tube
Theory
General
Considerations
Stromlinie
Stromfaden
Stromrohre
Fig: Stream Line, Stream Filament and Stream Pipe
The preceding considerations on the derivation
of
the integral form
of
the basic equations can also be used advantageously to derive simplified equa-
tions applicable to so-called stream filaments and to put them to use for the
solution
of
flow problems. Here one starts the considerations from flow lines
that are introduced as lines
of
a flow area and which at a certain point in time
possess/control the direction
of
the flow at each point
of
the flow field. One
can imagine a stream filament built up from a bundle
of
such flow lines and
one can make a subdivision
of
the entire flow field into a multitude
of
stream
filaments. Furthermore, it is possible to bundle stream filaments to obtain
stream pipes.
Here, attention has to be given to that considerations on properties
of
flows applied to stream filaments can only be employed advantageously when
the stream quantities assigned to each area
of
the stream filament can be
considered to be constant over the cross-section
of
the stream filament. This
makes it occasionally necessary to choose the cross-sectional area
of
a stream
filament su ciently small, so that for the considered problem the assumption
of
uniform state and flow quantities over the cross-sectional area
of
the stream
filament can be fulfilled su ciently precisely.