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Inviscid Incompressible Flow


Table of Contents

Preface  

Chapter 1.     Introduction 

                     1.   Role of viscosity in high Reynolds number flows
                     2.   Inviscid flows 

Chapter 2.     Vectors and Tensors

                    
1.   Cartesian index notation
                    
2.   Kronecker delta and permutation tensor
                    
3.   Vector and tensor operations
                    
4.   Vector and tensor transformations
                    
5.   Symmetric and skew-symmetric tensors
                    
6.   Vector identities
                    
7.  Integral identities 

Chapter 3.     Kinematics of Fluid Motion
                    
1.  Descriptions of fluid motion
                    
2.  Deformation measures     
                  
  3.  Stretch rate and vorticity
                    
4.  Dilatation
                    
5.   Pathlines, streaklines, streamlines and vortex lines
                    
6.  Transport theorem 

Chapter 4.     Laws of Fluid Dynamics
                    
1.  Mass conservation
                    
2.  Momentum conservation
                    
3.  Moment of momentum conservation
                    
4.  Kinetic energy transport theorem
                    
5.  Constraint of incompressibility
                    
6.   Navier-Stokes equation and some simple solutions 

Chapter 5.     Dynamics of Discontinuity Surfaces
                    
1.   Extended transport theorem for a region containing a
                           discontinuity surface
                    
2.  Jump conditions across a surface of discontinuity
   
                 3.  Surface tension
                    
4.   Boundary conditions for fluid flow 

Chapter 6.     Velocity Representations and Associated Theorems
                    
1.   Irrotational (lamellar) and related flows
                    
2.   Incompressible (solenoidal) flows
                    
3.   Flows that are both incompressible and irrotational
                    
4.   Helmholtz representation theorem
                    
5.   Biot-Savart law
                    
6.   Far-field asymptotic form for velocity in a flow extending to infinity 

Chapter 7.     Vorticity Transport Theorems
                    
1.  Vorticity transport equation
                    
2.   Motion of vortex lines
                    
3.  Preservation of circulation
                    
4.   Vorticity measures and invariants
                    
5.   Vorticity invariants in two-dimensional flows
                    
6.   Vorticity transport and invariants in viscous flows 

Chapter 8.     Pressure Theorems
                    
1.   Pressure Poisson equation
                    
2.  Bernoulli theorem
                    
3.   Boundary integral equation for pressure
                    
4.   Special results for steady, two-dimensional flows 

Chapter 9.     Two-Dimensional Potential Flows
                    
1.  Analogy between potential flows and analytic functions of a complex variable
                     2.  Some basic potential flows
                    
3.  Superposition of basic flows
                    
4.  Circle theorem
                    
5.   Method of images
                    
6.  Conformal transformation of fluid flows
                    
7.   Transformation
                    
8.   Joukowski transformation
                    
9.   Schwarz-Christoffel equation
                    
10. Free streamline theory 

Chapter 10.   Forces on Bodies in Two-Dimensional Flows
                    
1.   Integration in the complex plane
                    
2.   Blasius force and moment laws
                    
3.   Lagally’s theorem
                    
4.   D'Alembert's paradox and the Kutta-Joukowski lift law
                    
5.   Application to two-dimensional airfoils                    

Chapter 11.   Two-Dimensional Flows With Vorticity
                     1.      Systems of point vortices
                     2.      Schwarz function approach for uniform vorticity patches
                     3.      Contour integration method for uniform vorticity patches
                     4.      Discrete vortex numerical methods: Basic method
                     5.      Discrete vortex numerical methods: Acceleration techniques
                     6.      Vortex sheets
                    
7.   Vortex sheet representation of flat-plate airfoils
                    
8.   Flow with uniform background vorticity

 Chapter 12.   Three-Dimensional Potential Flows
                    
1.  Governing equations
                    
2.   Basic potential flows
                    
3.   Some axisymmetric flows with immersed bodies
                    
4.  Sphere theorems
                    
5.   Slender body theory
                     6.      Source and doublet sheet boundary integral methods
                     7.      Vortex sheet boundary integral method
                    
8.   Forces induced by singularities
                     9.      Added mass and buoyancy forces 

Chapter 13.   Axisymmetric Vortex Flows
                    
1.   General theory
                    
2.   Thin-core vortex rings
                     3.      Hill's spherical vortex
                     4.      Axisymmetric contour dynamics
                     5.      Steady axisymmetric flows
                     6.      Waves of variable core area
                     7.      Plug-flow model
                    
8.   Axisymmetric discrete vortex method 

Chapter 14.   Vortex Tubes
                    
1. 
Velocity field induced by a curved vortex filament
                    
2.   Cut-off model for a vortex tube         
                    
3.   Local-induction approximation
                     4.      Bending waves on a vortex tube 

Chapter 15.   Interfacial Wave Motion
                    
1.  Internal waves in layered media
                     2.      Linear wave theory
                     3.      Capillary and gravity waves
                     4.      Particle displacement in a wave field
                     5.   Wave energy and group velocity
                     6.   Boundary integral method for nonlinear interfacial waves 

Chapter 16.   Stability of Fluid Flows
                    
1.  General concepts
                    
2.  Stability of an elliptical vortex patch in a straining flow
                    
3.   Stability of two-dimensional point vortex arrays
                    
4.  Interfacial instabilities
                    
5.  Capillary instability of a liquid jet
                    
6.  Centrifugal instability
                    
7.   Stability of parallel shear flows
                    
8.   Three-dimensional instability of a vortex pair

Appendix. Common Expressions in Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate Systems

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