Solution

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The momentum equation is
Taking its scalar product with gives
For the Newtonian fluid stress tensor , its contraction with the velocity gradient is
because incompressibility removes the pressure term and the symmetric rate-of-strain tensor is orthogonal to the antisymmetric part of . Integration over and the divergence theorem therefore give the kinetic-energy balance for an incompressible Newtonian fluid:
The terms are respectively the rate of change of kinetic energy, outward advective flux of kinetic energy, power supplied by the body force, power supplied by surface traction, and irreversible viscous dissipation. Since , the body-force power may also be written and interpreted as exchange with potential energy.

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