4.1.

1 MEASURABLE OUTCOMES
Control volume analysis is particularly well suited to relating fluid properties at the
boundary of a system to important engineering quantities such as the forces
generated by a body, the power required by a jet engine, etc. However, additional
details can often be determined by considering the behavior of the flow more
locally, i.e. at points in the flow as opposed to over an entire region. This local view
leads to considering an infinitesimal control volume and deriving governing
equations in a differential form that apply at all points in the flow. In this module,
our goal is to introduce the fundamentals of this differential view.
Specifically, students successfully completing this module will be able to:
MO4.1: Explain the motion and deformation of a fluid element using kinematics
including the concepts of shear strain, normal strain, vorticity, divergence, and
substantial derivative.
MO4.2: Derive the differential form of the governing equations of a compressible,
viscous flow from the integral forms of these equations.
MO4.3: Relate the terms of the differential form of the governing equations to
physical effects considered in the conservation laws by applying the integral form
to an infinitesimal fluid element.
MO4.4: Apply the differential form of the governing equations to describe and
quantify the motion, forces acting on, work applied to, and heat addition to a fluid
element.
MO4.5: Explain the relationship between streamline curvature and pressure, and
apply this relationship to determine the qualitative behavior of the pressure in
common flows.