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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ There exist several forms, depending on
the surrounding assumptions about the fluid.
-## Incompressible fluid, uniform density
+## Incompressible fluid
In a fluid moving according to the velocity vield $\va{v}(\va{r}, t)$,
the acceleration felt by a particle is given by
@@ -123,9 +123,6 @@ $$\begin{aligned}
}
\end{aligned}$$
-
-## Incompressible fluid, variable density
-
The above form is straightforward to generalize to incompressible fluids
with non-uniform spatial densities $\rho(\va{r}, t)$.
In other words, these fluids are "lumpy" (variable density),
@@ -179,6 +176,10 @@ $$\begin{aligned}
}
\end{aligned}$$
+Usually, however, when discussing incompressible fluids,
+$\rho$ is assumed to be spatially uniform,
+in which case the latter equation is trivially satisfied.
+
## References