ABSTRACT
Our discussion of ideal fluid flows has shown that there are important kinetic and kinematic constraints on their existence. Despite these limitations, however, there are numerous instances in which the application of ideal fluid flow analysis leads to important practical results. In this chapter we illustrate some of the rudimentary ideal flows that find widespread use in such applications. In addition to the general “rules of the road” applicable to ideal flows (principal among these is irrotational flow and the concomitant existence of the velocity potential), we shall be concerned mainly with steady, incompressible flows in two dimensions.
