Ideal fluid

Fluid:
A fluid is a gas or liquid that, unlike a solid, flows to assume the shape of the container in which it is placed. This occurs because a fluid responds to a shear stress, or a force per unit area directed along the face of a cube of fluid, by flowing, rather than by an elastic displacement as in a solid.

PROPERTIES OF FLUID
1.DENSITY:

Density of a fluid is defined as the ratio of the mass of a fluid to its volume. 2.SPECIFIC VOLUME:

Specific volume of a fluid is defined as the volume of a fluid occupied by a unit mass or volume per unit mass of a fluid.

3.VISCOSITY OF LIQUID:

Viscosity is defined as the property of a fluid which offers resistance to the movement of one layer of fluid over another adjacent layer of fluid.

TYPES OF FLUIDS BASED ON VISCOSITY:
The fluids may be classified into following five types:


 * 1) Ideal fluid
 * 2) Real fluid
 * 3) Newtonian fluid
 * 4) Non-Newtonian fluid
 * 5) Ideal plastic fluid

Ideal fluid
An ideal fluid it fluid that have several properties: • Incompressible – the density is constant • Irrotational – the flow is smooth, no turbulence • Nonviscous –(Inviscid) fluid has no internal friction ( η = 0)

Ideal fluid do not actually exist in nature, but sometimes used for fluid flow problems.

compare to it a real fluid has viscosity. All the fluids in actual practice are real fluids.