11/13/2018 Engg Physics (Web Course), IIT Guwahati

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The left hand side can be written as a divergence, so

................................. ( 23 )

where is the vector operator and .

If the fluid is incompressible, is a constant throughout the fluid, so the continuity equation can be written as,

or, .............................. ( 24 )

In operator form,
................................................ ( 25 )

Thus eq. ( 21 ) refers the general expression for continuity equation.For steady state flow, the equation is reduced to
eq. ( 23 ) and for steady state and incompressible flow , the continuity equation is given in eq. ( 25 ).

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