Friday 8 August 2014

Fluid Mechanics: Tutorials - Unit 1

1. One litre of crude oil weighs 9.6N. Calculate its specific weight, density and specific gravity.

2. Calculate the density, specific weight and weight of two litres of a liquid of specific gravity 0.764 [764 kg/m3, 7494.84 N/m3, 15 N]

3. A plate 0.025 mm distant from a fixed plate moves at 50 cm/s and requires a force of 1.471 N/m2 to maintain this speed. Determine the fluid viscosity between the plates. [7.355 X 10-5 Pas]                                                                
4. Find the kinematic viscosity of an oil having density 980 kg/m3 when at a certain point in the oil, the shear stress is 0.25 N/m2 and velocity gradient 0.3 m/s. [ 8.5 X 10-4 m2/s]

5. An oil film of thickness 1.5 mm is used for lubrication between a square plate of size 0.9 m X 0.9 m and an inclined plane having an angle of inclination 20o. The weight of the plate is 392.4 N and it slides down the plane with the uniform velocity of 0.2 m/s. Find the dynamic viscosity of the oil. [1.24 Pa.s]

6. An oil of viscosity 5 poise is used for lubrication between a shaft and sleeve. The diameter of shaft is 0.5 m and it rotates at 200 rpm. Calculate the power lost in the oil for a sleeve length of 100 mm. The thickness of the oil film is 1 mm. [2.15 kW]

7. Find the change in volume of 1 m3 of water when subjected to a pressure increase of 2 MN/ m2. The bulk modulus of elasticity of water is 2.24 X 10 9 N/m2. [0.89 X 10 -3m3]

8. From the following data, determine the bulk modulus of elasticity of water at 3.5 MN/ m2, the volume was 1 m3 and at 24 MN/ m2, the volume was 0.990 m3. [2.05 X 10 9 N/ m2]

9. An atomizer forms water droplets with a diameter of 5 X 10-5 m, what is the pressure within the droplets at 20 oC, if the pressure outside the droplets is 101 kN/m2. Assume the surface tension of water at 200C as 0.0718 N/m. [106.74 kN/m2]

10. By how much does the pressure in a cylindrical jet of water 4 mm in diameter exceed the pressure of the surrounding atmosphere if the surface tension of the water is 0.0718 N/m. [35.9 N/m2]

11. A shaft 80 mm in diameter is being pushed through a bearing sleeve 80.2 mm in diameter and 0.3 m long. The clearance assumed the uniform, is flooded with lubricating oil of viscosity 0.1 kg/ms and specific gravity 0.9.
a)      If the shaft moves axially at 0.8 m/s, estimate the resistance force exerted by the oil and the shaft.
b)      If the shaft is axially fixed and rotated at 1800 rpm, estimate the resisting torque exerted by the oil and the power required to rotate the shaft.     
      [60.32 N, 22.74 Nm, 4.29 kW]

12. A 30 cm diameter pipe carries oil of specific gravity 0.8 at a velocity of 2 m/s. At another section the diameter is 20 cm. Find the velocity at this section and also mass rate of flow of oil. [4.5 m/s, 113 kg/s]

13. A 40 cm diameter pipe, conveying water, branches into two pipes of diameters 30 cm and 20 cm respectively. If the average velocity in the 40 cm diameter is 3 m/s, find the discharge in the pipe. Also determine the velocity in 20 cm pipe if the average velocity in 30 cm diameter pipe is 2 m/s. [0.3769 m3/s, 7.5 m/s]

14. At point A in a pipe line carrying water, the diameter is 1 m, the pressure is 98 kPa and then velocity is 1 m/s. At point B, 2 m higher than A, the diameter is 0.5 m and the pressure is 20 kPa. Determine the direction of the flow. [A to B]

15. The capillary rise in the glass tube used for measuring water level is not to exceed 0.5 mm. Determine its minimum size given that surface tension for water in contact with air is 0.07112 N/m. [5.8 cm]

16. The water is flowing through a taper pipe of length 50 m having diameters 40 cm at the upper end and 20 cm at the lower end at the rate of 60 lps. The pipe has a slope of 1 in 40. Find the pressure at the higher level is 24.525 N/cm2. [25.58 N/cm2]

17. A pipe of diameter 30 cm carries water at a velocity of 20 cm/s. The pressure at points A and B are given as 34.335 N/cm2 and 29.43 N/cm2 respectively, while the datum head at A and B are 25 m and 28 m. Find   the loss of head between A and B. [2 m]

18. A nozzle of diameter 30 mm is filled to a pipe of 60 mm diameter. Find the force exerted by the nozzle on the water which is flowing through the pipe at the rate of 4 m3/min. [7057.7 N]

19. A 450 reducing pipe bend in a horizontal plane tapers from 600 mm diameter at the inlet to 300 mm diameter at the outlet. The pressure at the inlet is 140 kPa and the rate of flow of water through the bend is 0.425 m3/s. calculate the net resultant horizontal force exerted by the water on the bend. [33.23 kN]

20. Fig.1 shows an unsymmetrical sprinkler. It has a frictionless shaft and equal flow through each nozzle with a velocity of 8 m/s relative to nozzle. Find the speed of rotation in rpm. [29.4 rpm]





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