Physical Interpretation of velocity potential

Ali Baig · Oct 1, 2015

What is physical interpretation of velocity potential? Is a conservative quantity, i.e, line integral of velocity potential around a closed loop is zero>

Mech_Engineer · Oct 1, 2015

I think maybe this description will help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_potential

Wikipedia.org said:

... In other words, velocity potentials are unique up to a constant, or a function solely of the temporal variable.

Physical Interpretation of velocity potential

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