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    I Nozzle Reaction Forces: Explaining the Resultant Force

    Yes but you have used continuity to relate them. So your assuming they are related to as you have done, from the areas and velocities change by continuity . but they are fixed from the pump and the exit. The presence of the nozzle doesn't change either of these. This is what I believe confuses...
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    Fluid Boundary layer in presence of a postive heat gradient

    I was wondering how a boundary layer would be dissipative of momentum if it was under the influence of a positive heat gradient. I understand that the reason that we don't see the boundary pressure equal the stagnation pressure is that the boundary is dissipative (so excess pressure above...
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    Conservation of Momentum Degrees of Freedom

    Thanks @Dale Thornton That really brings us back to something like the initial question. If for the fluid to be accelerated (at a convergence ) the resultant force must eventually be from outside the fluid where does it come from ? I could think of a few alternatives 1. The walls of the pipe...
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    Conservation of Momentum Degrees of Freedom

    Thanks @Dale If the system is defined as the whole inviscid fluid I don't want to pre-empt your answer but this is what I don't get if it is the internal pressure gradient causing the acceleration.
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    Conservation of Momentum Degrees of Freedom

    Thanks @Dale Yes I very much am confused by thinking of it as an isolated system I was envisaging that if the force causes an acceleration in the system I would need to see an equal and opposite force on the system (say the whole system moving backwards) Your saying this does not need to occur...
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    Conservation of Momentum Degrees of Freedom

    Hi Dale, No I'm happy for it to be 'hijacked', if you can answer how the Momentum change is resolved 'within' the liquid then I don't need to find the resultant force . My degrees of freedom proposition is only my attempt to understand what's happening to the momentum balance. Cheers Quentin
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    Conservation of Momentum Degrees of Freedom

    Hi I have been dealing with a fluid mechanics pressure gradient problem and from a statistical view point I can see how it resolves itself but am puzzled as to how it can occur at the molecular scale from a conservation of linear momentum perspective if Momentum is a conserved quantity While...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Thanks for all the replies how is that so? if we go down to the molecular level and we say that the piston depresses just 1 molecular depth then once the first layer moves 1 layer to the right it is in its final position (with a velocity of zero) KE~of zero it has now passed its...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Ok looks like we are both talking about the same gradient and resolution above the constriction .So this localized gradient would just get us back to the same 1ms flow above I don't see how it is really relevant to the mechanism that causes the flow to go from 1ms to 2ms at the expense of static...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Ok looks like we are both talking about the same gradient and resolution above the constriction .So this localized gradient would just get us back to the same 1ms flow above I don't see how it is really relevant to the mechanism that causes the flow to go from 1ms to 2ms at the expense of static...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Ok so how do we get from a now slower flow to a flow that must speed up ? We have gone the wrong way ?
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Isn't that what I said ? that the kinetic energy of each layer is equal so shared over a smaller mass this means that each element is accelerating ? If you mean that the Kinetic Energy is increasing then yes that's what I am trying to understand . What physical mechanism causes this to occur at...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Hi I thought id repost a simplified scenario to try and get a broader audience to a question I really am stuck with https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/instantaneous-bernoullis.867860/#post-5450743 I am trying to understand the physical mechanism that causes Bernoulli's pressure/velocity...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Thanks for the reply If I apply the information above then we are further away from the pressure/velocity variation we know develops, not closer Yes I agree that, in an actual experiment, we would see disturbances (I have seen exactly what you describe in creeks) but as 256bits alluded to...
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    How do pressure gradients develop instantaneously in Bernoulli flow?

    Hi thanks for the reply . Yes it puzzles me a lot as I think Continuity only reconciles the pressure variation it doesn't explain how it develops. Yes I am keeping it to an inviscid flow, I am not considering viscosity.
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