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The Reynolds and Womersley Numbers are also used to calculate the thicknesses of the boundary layers that can form from the fluid flow’s viscous effects. The Reynolds number is used to calculate the convective inertial boundary layer thickness that can form, and the Womersley number is used to calculate the transient inertial boundary thickness that can form.
Hence buoyancy force arises as pressure on the bottom surface of the immersed object is greater than that at the top. Flow problems in buildings were studied since 700 B.C. Recent advancements in CFD and CAE have led to comprehensive calculation of buoyancy flows and flows in buildings.
Flow velocity vector field u = (,) m s −1 [L][T] −1: Velocity pseudovector ... F b = Buoyant force; F g = Gravitational force; W app = Apparent weight of immersed ...
The Boussinesq approximation for water waves takes into account the vertical structure of the horizontal and vertical flow velocity. This results in non-linear partial differential equations , called Boussinesq-type equations , which incorporate frequency dispersion (as opposite to the shallow water equations , which are not frequency-dispersive).
Dimensionless numbers (or characteristic numbers) have an important role in analyzing the behavior of fluids and their flow as well as in other transport phenomena. [1] They include the Reynolds and the Mach numbers, which describe as ratios the relative magnitude of fluid and physical system characteristics, such as density, viscosity, speed of sound, and flow speed.
The one-dimensional (1-D) Saint-Venant equations were derived by Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, and are commonly used to model transient open-channel flow and surface runoff. They can be viewed as a contraction of the two-dimensional (2-D) shallow-water equations, which are also known as the two-dimensional Saint-Venant equations.
For a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow. For instance, a particle floating at the free surface of water waves , experiences a net Stokes drift velocity in the direction of wave propagation .
For shallow water waves, such as tsunamis and hydraulic jumps, the characteristic velocity U is the average flow velocity, averaged over the cross-section perpendicular to the flow direction. The wave velocity, termed celerity c, is equal to the square root of gravitational acceleration g, times cross-sectional area A, divided by free-surface ...