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The locus of temporary locations of all particles that have passed through a fixed point in the flow field at a particular instant is known as

  • A.streamline.
  • B.streakline.
  • C.pathline.
  • D.timeline.

Answer: B

The locus is a streakline.

A streakline joins, at one instant, all the particles that have passed through a given fixed point, such as the line of dye or smoke released continuously from a nozzle.

A streamline is everywhere tangent to the velocity field at an instant. A pathline is the trajectory of a single particle over time. A timeline is a line of particles that were marked at the same instant. In steady flow streamlines, pathlines and streaklines coincide, but in unsteady flow only the streakline matches this definition.

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