2.25: Advanced Fluid Dynamics
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  Section 3: Mass Conservation of Flowing Media
  3.1 Law of mass conservation for a continuum, expressed in control volume form. Examples.
  3.2 Mass conservation law in differential form. The physical significance of the divergence of the velocity: = the rate of increase of the material’s volume, per unit volume.
  3.3 Some special forms of the mass conservation equation for quasi-one-dimensional flow, accounting for the effects of unsteadiness, compressibility, and cross-sectional area variations. Examples.
 
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Fay, Chapter 3

 

  Problem Set Section 3
  Problem 3.3
  Problem 3.5
  Problem 3.7
  Problem 3.8