next up previous
Next: Relative Motion Up: Momentum Equations Previous: Conservation of Angular Momentum

Conservation of Linear Momentum

Consider forces in the x-direction. From Newton's Second Law of motion applied to a fluid volume

equation129

Thus,

equation140

Similarly,

equation151

equation162

In Cartesian Tensor notation,

equation173

Note the continuity equation and the momentume equations are 4 but have 9 unknowns. We cannot solve the flow. To resolve this problem lets try to model tex2html_wrap_inline2249 interms of u, v and w.


Yousef Haik
Sun Sep 1 16:31:13 EDT 1996