Kinematics of Flows
摘要
In contrast to chemistry and other subfields of physics, we define a particle to be a neighbouring group of molecules that move at a certain average velocity at any given time. In an idealised form, we reduce them to a point, the trajectory of which we follow. Now, the concept of the material derivative of a physical quantity is introduced. The main statements of the chapter are the continuity equation and the transport theorem, which are proven.