Powerful tool For Effective study and to Understand Flow Devices…… P M V Subbarao Professor Mechanical Engineering Department I I T Delhi Vector Notation for Viscous Fluid Flow

Importance The tensor analysis is a powerful tool that enables the reader to study and to understand more effectively the fundamentals of fluid mechanics. Enables to derive all conservation laws of fluid mechanics without memorizing any single equation. The quantities encountered in fluid dynamics are tensors. A physical quantity which has a definite magnitude but not a definite direction exhibits a zeroth-order tensor, which is a special category of tensors. A first-order tensor encompasses physical quantities with a definite magnitude with 3 components and a definite direction that can be decomposed in 3 directions. A second order tensor is a quantity, which has 9 definite components and 9 definite directions.

A Vector in Euclidian Space According to Einstein's summation convention, it can be written as:

Einstein Notation Range convention: Whenever a subscript appears only once in a term, the subscript takes all possible values. E.g. in 3D space: Summation convention: Whenever a subscript appears twice in the same term the repeated index is summed over the index parameter space. E.g. in 3D space:

Scalar Product : The Base of Civilization

Scalar Product : Work & Energy Scalar or dot product of two vectors results in a scalar quantity. Apply the Einstein's summation convention to work or energy scalars. Rearrange the unit vectors and the components separately:

Kronecker delta In Cartesian coordinate system, the scalar product of two unit vectors is called Kronecker delta, which is: Using the Kronecker delta,

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Vector or Cross Product : Creation of Torque The vector product of two vectors is a vector that is perpendicular to the plane described by those two vectors. Apply the index notation With  ijk as the permutation symbol with the following definition

Using the above definition, the vector product is given by:

Non repeated subscripts Non repeated subscripts remain fixed during the summation. E.g. in 3D space one for each i = 1, 2, 3 and j is the dummy index.

Special Notes To avoid confusion between fixed and repeated indices or different repeated indices, etc, special notes are proposed. Note 1: No index can be repeated more than twice. Note 2: Number of free indices shows how many quantities are represented by a single term. Note 3: If the equation looks like this: