Unsteady Bernoulli's Derivation 050921 PDF
Unsteady Bernoulli's Derivation 050921 PDF
Unsteady Bernoulli's Derivation 050921 PDF
016 Hydrodynamics
Professor A.H. Techet
DV ~ ∂V~
1~ ~
= +∇ ~ V ·V
Dt ∂t 2
~ = ∇φ,
Also for irrotational flow, we can use the velocity potential V ~ and we have
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DV~ ~
∂ ∇φ
1
ρ =ρ +∇ ~ ~ · ∇φ
∇φ ~
Dt ∂t 2
The forces acting on Bob are pressure and gravity, so the momentum equation becomes
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~
∂ ∇φ
1
ρ ~
+∇ ~ · ∇φ
∇φ ~ = −∇p~ − ρg k̂ = −∇p ~ − ∇(ρgz)
~
∂t 2 |{z}
d
dz
(ρgz)
~ ∂φ 1 ~ ~
∇ ρ + ρ ∇φ · ∇φ + p + ρgz = 0
∂t 2
And in one last glorious step, we integrate all the spacial derivatives (i.e. knock the nabla out), and we
have the unsteady Bernoulli’s Equation;
∂φ 1 ~ ~
ρ + ρ ∇φ · ∇φ + p + ρgz = F (t)
∂t 2
where F (t) is some function of t (is the ”constant of integration”).