Irrotational flow is characterized by fluid motion where particles do not rotate around their axes, resulting in zero vorticity. For a flow to be irrotational, the curl of the velocity field must be zero. This imposes specific conditions on velocity gradients. For instance, to maintain zero rotation about the z-axis, the gradient condition:

Equation 1

must be satisfied, along with similar conditions for other axes:

Equation 2

A uniform flow, where u is constant and v and w are both zero, satisfies these conditions and serves as a simple example of irrotational flow. However, when a solid object is introduced, irrotationality only persists far from the object. Near the boundary, the velocity increases sharply from zero (due to the no-slip condition) to the freestream value, creating significant shear stress and a boundary layer in viscous fluids.

When fluid enters a pipe from a large reservoir, the initial flow is nearly uniform, resulting in an irrotational core where the velocity distribution is flat. As the fluid moves downstream, a boundary layer forms along the pipe walls due to viscosity, causing the velocity profile to develop gradients that ultimately lead to a fully developed parabolic profile. In this fully developed region, rotational effects dominate near the walls, while a central core may remain approximately irrotational.

In the initial irrotational region of pipe flow, Bernoulli's equation

Equation 3

can be applied between points along a streamline as the conditions of incompressibility, inviscid flow, and irrotationality hold. However, as the boundary layer grows and rotational effects become significant near the walls, the assumptions of Bernoulli's equation break down. This means that Bernoulli's equation is only applicable in the entrance region and the irrotational core, but not in the fully developed, rotational region where viscosity effects dominate.

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