In an inviscid flow, the u'and v'terms are orthogonal, so the term is zero, as one would expect.
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Displacement Thickness is an alternative definition stating that the boundary layer represents a deficit in mass flow compared to inviscid flow with slip at the wall.
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It states that for an inviscid flow, an increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy.
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In the simplest case of a flat plate parallel to the incoming flow, boundary-layer theory results in ( friction ) drag, whereas all inviscid flow theories will predict zero drag.
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As gases are subjected to extreme conditions, these tools become a bit more complex, from the Euler equations for inviscid flow to the Navier Stokes equations that fully account for viscous effects.
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The flow of fluids with low values of viscosity agree closely with "'inviscid flow "'everywhere except close to the fluid boundary where the boundary layer plays a significant role.
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The thickness of the velocity boundary layer is normally defined as the distance from the solid body at which the viscous flow velocity is 99 % of the freestream velocity ( the surface velocity of an inviscid flow ).
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That is, "'the energy balance for a steady inviscid flow in an external conservative field states that the sum of the total enthalpy and the external potential is constant along a streamline " '.
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However, most flows are dominated by viscous effects, so engineers of the 17th and 18th centuries found the inviscid flow solutions unsuitable, and by experimentation they developed empirical equations, thus establishing the science of hydraulics.
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In fluid dynamics and plasma physics, the Clebsch representation provides a means to overcome the difficulties to describe an inviscid flow with non-zero vorticity in the Eulerian reference frame using Lagrangian mechanics and Hamiltonian mechanics.
