1. Defintion of Terms 957
An intuitive case is when volume V is a sphere and
K
represents density of an in-
compressible fluid multiplied by the flow velocity (mass flux). In this case, the
rate of change of mass inside the sphere is due to the flow of the incompressible
liquid across the surface of the sphere.
We now try to solve the previous example of integration over the surface of a
hemisphere. To obtain a closed surface, we use the circle obtained from the inter-
section of the xy-plane with the hemisphere to contain the volume. We note that
the integral of the given vector over this surface is zero because the given vector
has no component in the z-direction. Therefore, the integral over the surface of
the hemisphere is equal to the divergence of the given vector in the volume of the
hemisphere. The divergence of the given vector is
4=⋅∇ A
. Therefore:
3/8)3/2(4V4V)(
VV
ππ
===⋅∇=⋅
³³³³³³³³
ddAdsnA
S
As an exercise, the reader may develop the surface integral of kzjyixA
++=
over the hemisphere of Figure VIIc.1.8.
Stokes curl theorem is the two dimensional form of the Gauss’s theorem. It
expresses that the circulation of a vector around a closed curve C is equal to the
flux of the vector over S, the area enclosed by C:
dsnASdArdA
SS
C
⋅×∇=⋅×∇=⋅
³³³³³
)()( VIIc.1.24
where
rd
is an elemental vector in the direction of integration along curve C and
n
is the unit vector normal to the elemental area ds. Directions of these two vec-
tors are as follows: if unit vector
rd
moves counterclockwise around the horizon-
tal curve C (right-hand screw), the direction of unit vector
n
is upward, if the
elemental vector
rd
moves clockwise around the horizontal curve C (right-hand
screw), the direction of unit vector
n
is downward. For example, let us verify the
Stokes curl theorem for the paraboloid of Figure VIIc.1.10. The function repre-
senting the surface is given by z = 1 – x
2
– y
2
and the function representing the in-
tersection with the xy plane is given by x
2
+ y
2
= 1. These are surfaces S and M in
Figure VIIc.1.10, respectively.
z
y
x
z = 1 - x
2
- y
2
C
S
R=1
M
Figure VIIc.1.10. Depiction of a circular paraboloid