Fluid as a moving continuum. Validity of the continuum approximation.
Kinematics, the velocity field. Eulerian representation of fields. Lagrangian coordinates.
Streamlines, path lines, and streak lines. The material derivative as
a time derivative following a Lagrangian particle. Example: The oscillating
vortex.This example may be studied in
MATLAB using the m-files vortex.m and lagvort.m.
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