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1
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What is a vortex?

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A coherent motion of fluid particles around some common axis

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What is rotational and irrotational flow?

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Rotational flow is a flow where the fluid particles rotate around their individual axes, irrotational is the converse

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3
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Is a solid body vortex rotational?

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yes

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4
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Is a potential vortex rotational?

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No, except on axis

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5
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What is circulation?

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An integral measure of the velocity or the vorticity field connected by Stokes theorem

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6
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What are vortex lines?

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Integral curves of vorticity field

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7
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What is the Biot-Sarvat Law?

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It allows us to compute the velocity at an arbritrary pint induced by a simply connected path of vorticity

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8
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What do the velocities in a straight vortex tube depend on?

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We obtain rotationally symmetric velocities that depend inversely proportionally on the normal distance and on the two aspect angles

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9
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What do induced velocities in an infinite straight vortex tube depend on?

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Only inversely proportionally on the normal distance

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10
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What is a general vortex sheet?

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An infinite or finite arrangement of infinite or finite parallel straight or curved potential vortices

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11
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What are the properties of velocities for an infinite vortex sheet?

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The velocities above and below are uniform and have a jump across

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12
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What is the mirror principle?

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The mirror principle serve to generate suitable streamlines /surfaces as models for walls in inviscid flows

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13
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How can vorticity be produced and destroyed?

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By positive or negative vortex stretching and by baroclinic production

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14
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What is Prandtl’s hypothesis?

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Prandtl’s hypothesis enables to split flow domain into potential flow and boundary layer

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15
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What is potential flow?

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Potential flow is a flow whose velocity field is irrotational and thus can be generated by a gradient of scalar potential functions

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16
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What is the superposition principle?

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The superposition principle arises from linearity of the Laplace equation and allows to generate new potentials from summation of potentials

17
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Where does the normal derivative of potentials vanish?

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At impermeable walls

18
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For what kind of Flows is the Bernoulli equation valid?

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For potential flows with irrotational velocity (except at isolated singularities), constant density, and volume forces with potential with a unique Bernoulli constant for the entire field

19
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How is the divergence free condition satisfied?

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By using the streamfunction

20
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What is the volume flux between two streamlines equal to?

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The difference in respective stream functions at iso level

21
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What is a property of streamlines and Equipotential lines?

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They are orthogonal to one another except at singularities

22
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What is a property of conformal mapping?

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It is angle preserving

23
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What do real and imaginary parts of complex potential represent?

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Real part is potential function, imaginary part is stream function

24
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How can complex vorticity be derived from complex potential?

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By taking the first derivative

25
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What are the components of complex circulation?

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Real part is circulation, imaginary part is volume flux along closed integration part

26
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What is parallel flow characterized by?

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Velocity vectors of constant direction and magnitude

27
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What is source / sink flow characterized by?

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Velocity vectors pointing radially from / into origin with magnitude decaying inversely proportionally to distance

28
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What is potential vortex flow characterized by?

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Velocity vectors pointing tangentially to circumcircles around the origin with magnitude decaying inversely proportionally to distance

29
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How does a dipole flow occur?

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From the distinguished limit of superimposing source and sink where their strength increases inversely proportionally to their distance

30
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What does a wedge flow represent?

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A wedge flow can represent a whole range of interior/ exterior flows in and around corners, limit cases are flat plate and sharp tip

31
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What do free stream and source result in?

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An open body to compensate for the source volume flux rate which is fed into the body

32
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How can a body be closed?

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By adding a sink of equal and opposite strength

33
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What is constructed using superposition of dipole and parallel flow?

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A potential flow around an infinitely long straight cylinder with circular cross section

34
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What is the Kutta-Joukowski theorem?

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The resulting force in a 2D potential flow around a closed body is proportional to circulation, density and incoming velocity

35
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What is the Joukowski map?

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It maps a circle onto a flat plate

36
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Are potential flow solutions around closed bodies unique?

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No

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