Advanced inviscid fluid flow

EGME 508 Spring 2015

Homework No. 01, Quiz on Feburary 12, 2015
Problem 1:
During the summer, a student is testing an airfoil inside a wind tunnel. The next day the air
conditioning system fails and the temperature inside the laboratory raises from 20 C to 30 C. To
conserve the Reynolds number, will the student have to increase or decrease the speed of the wind
tunnel? Explain.
Problem 2:
Under what conditions can you use the inviscid approximation?
Problem 3:
Prove the following vector identities
a) = 0
b) ( u) = 0
where is a scalar and u is a vector.
Problem 4:
Use index notation to show that
u (v w) = (u w)v (u v)w
Problem 5:
Prove the following relations
a) ij ij = 3
b) ijk ijk = 6
Problem 6:
A flow has the following velocity field in Cartesian coordinates
u = 2x (y 2 + z 2 ) i + x2 yj + x2 zk
Verify the validity of Gausss theorem for the fluid inside the a spherical volume: x2 + y 2 + z 2 = a2