Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, 5th Edition

Chapter 10. Potential Flow and Creeping Flow

10.0 Chapter Objectives

On completion of this chapter, a student should be able to:

• Describe systems that exhibit inviscid, potential, and creeping flow

• Simplify the Navier–Stokes equations to model inviscid and potential flow

• Describe the stream function

• Use the stream function to solve inviscid flow problems

• Generate plots of streamlines using the stream function

• Describe the velocity potential or potential function

• Use the velocity function to solve inviscid and potential flow problems

• Determine the velocity components of a flow problem using the stream function and velocity potential

• Simplify the Navier–Stokes equation to model creeping flow

• Describe how to solve creeping flow problems

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