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March 10, 2012, 01:34 |
What is the normal viscous force(stress)?
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Hello,
I understand the tangential shear stresses (or forces) acting on a fluid element due to friction between moving fluid layers, but I can't imagine how viscosity might cause a normal force (on a fluid element), Doesn't it always have a tangential effect? .... explain please! |
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March 11, 2012, 14:20 |
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March 12, 2012, 21:07 |
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I think gradients are harder to picture in the normal direction because we can really only experience a sliding type of friction when we a moving tangential to a surface, we can't really have a normal gradient in velocity because we are solids. It might help to imagine the friction in a tangential shear stress and rotate it into a normal stress. You still have particles sliding past each other just in a different and harder to understand way. You can also relate it to the diffusion of momentum in analogy with heat and mass transfer starting from ideal gas theory but that's a bit complicated to.
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