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Course Name: Fluid Mechanics

and Machinery
Course Code: MEC203
Semester : III
Dr. K. Anand,

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 Kinematics
Description of fluid motion
Eulerian Method
Advantage - it avoids the determination of the
movement of each individual fluid particle for all details
it seeks the velocity and its variation with time t at
each and every location ( ) in the flow field

Lagrangian view - all hydrodynamic parameters are tied

to the particles or elements
Eulerian view - they are functions of location and time.

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Eulerian Method
Flow field in Eulerian method can be given as

where,
and,

therefore,

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Eulerian Method
relationship between the Eulerian and Lagrangian
method

or,

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Eulerian Method
The integration of the above equations yield the
constants of integration which are to be found from the
initial coordinates of the fluid particles

the solution gives the equations of

Lagrange as

Lagrangian method of description can always be

derived from Eulerian method.
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Eulerian Method
In a 1–-D flow field, the velocity at a point may be
given in the Eulerian system by u = x + t. Determine
the displacement of a fluid particle whose initial
position is x0 at initial time t0 in the Lagrangian
system.

This is of the form

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Eulerian Method
The solution of the differential equation is

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Eulerian Method
The solution of the differential equation is

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The final form of the equation is

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A two dimensional flow is described in the Lagrangian
system as

Find
(a) the equation of path line of the particle and
(b) the velocity components in Eulerian system.

Path line of the particle is found by eliminating ‘t’

from the equations

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This is the required equation of path line

u (the x component of velocity)

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v (the y component of velocity)

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