Momentum Transfer
In momentum transfer, the fluid is treated as a continuous distribution of matter. The study of momentum transfer, or fluid mechanics can be divided into two branches: fluid statics (fluids at rest), and fluid dynamics (fluids in motion). When a fluid is flowing in the x direction parallel to a solid surface, the fluid has x-directed momentum, and its concentration is υxρ. By random diffusion of molecules there is an exchange of molecules in the z direction. Hence the x-directed momentum has been transferred in the z-direction from the faster- to the slower-moving layer. The equation for momentum transport is Newton's Law of Viscosity written as follows:
where τzx is the flux of x-directed momentum in the z direction, ν is μ/ρ, the momentum diffusivity z is the distance of transport or diffusion, ρ is the density, and μ is the viscosity. Newtons Law is the simplest relationship between the flux of momentum and the velocity gradient.
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