Chapter 3
Basics
of
Fluid
Kinematics
GENERAL
CONSIDERATIONS
The the most important basic knowledge
of
mathematics and physics with
respect to fluid mechanics. This knowledge is needed to describe fluid flows
or
derive and construct basic equations
of
fluid mechanics in order to solve
flow problems.
Here it is important to know that fluid mechanics is primarily interested
in the velocity field
~(Xj'
t) at initial and boundary conditions, and in the
accompanying pressure field
P(x
j
,
t), i.e. fluid mechanics tries to describe
flow processes in field variables.
This representation results in
"Eulerian presentation"
of
fluid flows. This
is best suited for the solution
of
flow problems and is thus applied in
experimental, analytical and numerical fluid mechanics. The introduction
of
field quantities for the thermodynamic properties
of
a fluid, like e.g. the
pressure
P(x
j
, t),
the temperature T(x
j
, t),
the density p(x
j
, t),
the internal energy
e(xj' t) as well as for the molecular transport quantities, as the dynamic viscosity
!l(x
j
,
t), the heat conductivity A(x
i
, t) and the diffusion coefficients
D(xi'
t) so
that a
complet\":
presentation
of
fluid mechanics is possible.
With the inclusion
of
diffusive transport quantities, i.e. the molecular heat
trans-port
q,{Xj'
t), the molecular mass transport
m,{x,.,
t) the molecular momen-
tum transport
tj/Xi' t), it is possible to formulate the conservation laws for
mass, momentum and energy for general application.
The basic equations
of
fluid mechanics can thus be formulated locally,
and hold for all flow problems in the same form. The differences in the
solutions result from the different initial and boundary conditions that define
the actual flow problems which enter into the solutions by the integration
of
'the locally formulated basic quations.
Experience shows that the derivation
of
basic equations
of
fluid mechanics
can be achieved in the easiest way
if
considerations are carried for fluid ele-
ments, i.e. by employing the
"Lagrangian consideration" for the derivation
of
equations. The "Lagrange considerations" assumes that a fluid can be split up