6.4.1 - Streamlines
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Practice Questions
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What is a streamline?
💡 Hint: Think about how fluid particles move at a given moment.
What does a pathline represent?
💡 Hint: Consider the journey of a single particle in the flow.
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What defines a streamline?
💡 Hint: Think about how fluid velocity is represented visually.
True or False: Streaklines and pathlines are always the same in unsteady flow.
💡 Hint: Consider what happens in changing flow conditions.
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Design an experiment to visualize streamlines in a fluid flow around an object of your choice.
💡 Hint: Think about the type of object and how it disrupts flow.
Calculate the pressure drop across a streamline if the velocity increases from 1 m/s to 3 m/s, using Bernoulli's principle.
💡 Hint: Consider that density, ρ, is constant for incompressible flow.
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