Potential Flow

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In fluid dynamics, potential flow describes the velocity field as the gradient of a scalar function: the velocity potential. As a result, a potential flow is characterized by an irrotational velocity field, which is a valid approximation for several applications. The irrotationality of a potential flow is due to the curl of a gradient always being equal to zero. In the case of an incompressible flow the velocity potential satisfies Laplace's equation. However, potential flows also have been used to describe compressible flows. The potential flow approach occurs in the modeling of both stationary as well as nonstationary flows.

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