FLUID MECHANICS BFC10403 SEM.

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SESSION 2015/2016

ASSIGNMENT 2

1. The lower half of a 10-m-high cylindrical container is filled with water ( = 1000 kg/m3)
and the upper half with oil that has a specific gravity of 0.85. Determine the pressure
difference between the top and bottom of the cylinder. (Answer: 90.7 kPa)

2. Oil with a density of 850 kg/m3 and kinematic viscosity of 0.00062 m2/s
is being discharged by a 5-mm-diameter, 40-m-long horizontal pipe from
a storage tank open to the atmosphere. The height of the liquid level
above the center of the pipe is 3 m. Disregarding the minor losses,
determine the flow rate of oil through the pipe.

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3. A horizontal pipe has an abrupt expansion from D1 =8 cm to D2 = 16

cm. The water velocity in the smaller section is 10 m/s and the flow is
turbulent. The pressure in the smaller section is P1 =300 kPa. Taking the
kinetic energy correction factor to be 1.06 at both the inlet and the
outlet, determine the downstream pressure P2, and estimate the error
that would have occurred if Bernoullis equation had been used. (Answers:
321 kPa, 28 kPa)

4. Two water reservoirs A and B are connected to each other through a 40-m-long, 2-cm-
diameter cast iron pipe with a sharp-edged entrance. The pipe also involves a swing check
valve and a fully open gate valve. The water level in both reservoirs is the same, but
reservoir A is pressurized by compressed air while reservoir B is open to the atmosphere at
88 kPa. If the initial flow rate through the pipe is 1.2 L/s, determine the absolute air pressure
on top of reservoir A.Take the water temperature to be 10C. (Answer: 733 kPa)

Submit on Sunday - 29.11.2015 in class

22/11/2015 - Noor Aliza Ahmad