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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ib Paper 1 17D Solution by
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For a steady inviscid incompressible fluid of constant density in uniform gravity , the Euler equation for fluid motion and continuity equation areTaking the scalar product with givesThus Bernoulli's quantity is constant along each streamline. For an irrotational connected flow it is constant throughout the flow; constancy across different streamlines is not assumed in general.
Since incompressibility makes , integrating over a fixed control volume and applying the divergence theorem yields the integral momentum balanceHere is outward and the left side is the net outgoing momentum flux. Uniform atmospheric pressure has zero resultant on a closed control surface, so it may be subtracted from all pressures in the jet calculations.
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