Paper 4, Section II, B

Fluid Dynamics | Part IB, 2015

Consider a steady inviscid, incompressible fluid of constant density ρ\rho in the absence of external body forces. A cylindrical jet of area AA and speed UU impinges fully on a stationary sphere of radius RR with A<πR2A<\pi R^{2}. The flow is assumed to remain axisymmetric and be deflected into a conical sheet of vertex angle α>0\alpha>0.

(i) Show that the speed of the fluid in the conical sheet is constant.

(ii) Use conservation of mass to show that the width d(r)d(r) of the fluid sheet at a distance rRr \gg R from point of impact is given by

d(r)=A2πrsinαd(r)=\frac{A}{2 \pi r \sin \alpha}

(iii) Use Euler's equation to derive the momentum integral equation

S(pni+ρnjujui)dS=0\iint_{S}\left(p n_{i}+\rho n_{j} u_{j} u_{i}\right) d S=0

for a closed surface SS with normal n\mathbf{n} where umu_{m} is the mm th component of the velocity field in cartesian coordinates and pp is the pressure.

(iv) Use the result from (iii) to calculate the net force on the sphere.

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