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This document appears to be an assignment for an aerodynamics course covering flow kinematics. It includes 7 problems analyzing velocity fields, streamlines, vorticity, and pressure distributions. The assignment is from Dr. Ghaly and involves laminar flow, particle acceleration, incompressible flow, potential flows, and flow past a horizontal wall with a sink. Students are asked to solve parts of each problem analyzing aspects of the given velocity fields and flows.

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HW 1 and Soln Compressed

This document appears to be an assignment for an aerodynamics course covering flow kinematics. It includes 7 problems analyzing velocity fields, streamlines, vorticity, and pressure distributions. The assignment is from Dr. Ghaly and involves laminar flow, particle acceleration, incompressible flow, potential flows, and flow past a horizontal wall with a sink. Students are asked to solve parts of each problem analyzing aspects of the given velocity fields and flows.

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DR.

GHALY AERODYNAMICS MECH 464/6121

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

ANALYTICAL ASSIGNMENT # 1
Flow Kinematics

1. For the laminar two-dimensional flow of air, at low Mach number (M<0.3), near the
surface of a flat plate, the streamwise (or x-) component of the velocity may be
approximated by the relation
y y2
u=a −b
x x
a. Using the continuity equation, what is the velocity component v in the y-
direction? Evaluate the constant of integration by noting that v=0 at y=0.
b. Compute the following strain rates: εxx, εxy, and Ωz
c. Compute the vorticity field
d. Compute the circulation around a triangle whose corners are at the points
(1,1), (2,1), (1,2)

2. Given the following velocity field



V = 4txiˆ − 2t 2 yˆj + 4 xzkˆ
a. Is this flow field steady or unsteady?
b. Is it two- or three-dimensional?
c. What is the total acceleration of a particle at (-1,1,0).
d. Does this velocity correspond to an incompressible fluid flow?

3. A two-dimensional velocity field is given by:



V = ( x 2 − y 2 + x)iˆ − (2 xy + y ) ˆj
a. Show that this field satisfies continuity
b. Show that it is irrotational
c. Find the velocity potential
d. Find the line integral of V·ds along a line connecting (1,1) and (3,2)
e. Check this answer by computing the value of the line integral directly from the
velocity potential

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4. a. Show that the two fields described below are identical:


ψ = 2 xy + y and φ = x2 + x − y2

b. By examining the dot-product ∇ψ • ∇φ , show that the streamlines and the equi-
potential lines are orthogonal except at stagnation points (where thevelocity is
zero).

5. Given the following velocity field:



V = (x 2 + y 2 )iˆ + (2 xy 2 ) ˆj
a. Is this flow rotational? If so, compute the vorticity?
b. Find the line integral along path S between points (0,0) and (1,2) where S is a
parabola with its vertex at the origin and opening to the right
c. Find the circulation around a triangle (going counter-clockwise) through the
points (0,0), (1,0), (1,2)
d. Show that you get the same result in part (c.) above when you integrate the
vorticity over the area of the same triangle

6. The absolute value of the velocity and the equation of the streamlines in a two-
dimensional velocity field are given by:

V = x 2 + 2 y 2 + 2 xy and ψ = y 2 + 2 xy = c
By two different methods, find the integral of the vorticity ωz, over the rectangular
area having corners (0,0), (2,0), (2,1), and (0,1).

7. A perfect, incompressible irrotational fluid is flowing past a horizontal wall placed


along the x-axis, with a sink of strength λ placed at the origin. At infinity the flow is
parallel to the x-axis and of uniform velocity V∞.
a. Determine the location of the stagnation point xo, in terms of V∞ and λ
b. Find the pressure distribution along the wall as a function of x
c. Taking the free-stream static pressure at infinity to be p∞, express the pressure
coefficient, Cp, as a function of x/xo
d. Sketch the resulting pressure distribution

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or take the horizontal axis as x/x0

x/x0

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