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We st art by select select ing a sp spherical herical cont rol volume dV. dV. As shown in the f igure below, t his is given by

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where r , θ, and φ st and for t he radius, radius, polar, an and d azimuthal ang angles, les, respectively. respectively. The azimuthal azimuthal angle ang le i s also also referred t o as the zenith or colatit ude ang angle. le.

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We will represen entt the velocity velocity f ield via

In an Eulerian Eulerian ref erence frame mas mass cons conservation ervation is represented represented by accumu accumulat lat ion, net f low, and source terms in a contr contr ol volume volume..

Accumulation The accum accumulati ulati on term is given given by the t ime rat e of change change of mass. We t herefore have have

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The net f low t hrough the control volume can be divided int o that corr esponding to each directi on.

Radial Flow Start ing with t he radial direction, we have

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The inflow area Ain is a trapezoid whose area is given by

The key term here is the sine term. Not e t hat t he mid segment is t he average of t he bases (parallel sides). Upon expansion of  Ain, and in the limit of vanishing d θ, we have substit ution into Ain yields

where high order terms have been dropped. The outflow in the radial direction is

but where and By only keeping the l owest (second & t hird) order t erms in t he result ing expression, we have Note, t hat in t he expression for Aout , we kept both second order and thi rd order t erms. The reason for t his is that t his term wil l be multi plied by "dr" and therefore, t he overall order will be three. In principle, one must carry all t hose terms unt il t he final subst it uti on is made, and only t hen one can compare t erms and keep those wit h t he lowest order. At the outset, t he net f low in t he radial directi on is given by

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Thanks a lot f or the deri vati on, I was having some issues pict uring t he spherical el ement.

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A bett er way of doing it is by doing the grouping done in t he last line using the product rule when you calculate each diff erence in mass flow r ate. Also if you leave some second order t erms, when you divi de by dV, t hen you can say and as dx_k go to 0, t hose terms go away.

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