EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF LEFKE

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING

CE 307 FLUID MECHANICS FALL 12-13 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS
Date: 16. 11. 2012 Instructor: Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Oğuz
Duration:09:30-11:30
Room#: CL-010
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Important Note: Your own sheet of key equations/tables/graphics and scientific calculator (no
cellular phone usage) are allowable to use during exam with forbidding of their exchanges. Please

1. (30 p) For the manometer shown in Figure 1 below, calculate
   .

use first the rear side of this exam paper for your solutions, then the blank sheets attached.

Figure 1 (Question 1) Figure 2 (Question 2)

2. (35 p) Oil with a specific weight of 8.64 kN/m3 flows from A to B through the system
shown in Figure 2 above. Calculate the volume flow rate of oil.
3. (35 p) For the system shown in Figure 3 below, calculate (a) the volume flow rate of water
from the nozzle and (b) the pressure at point A.

Figure 3
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 CE 307 FLUID MECHANICS FALL 12-13 MIDTERM EXAM SOLUTIONS

1. First list the specific weights from Table A.1 for water and calculate specific weight of oil from
the definition of specific gravity (sg) as follows:

    


 
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Now proceed from A to B, calculating the pressure change in each fluid (by adding downward

  
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direction and subtracting upward direction):

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2. Apply Bernoulli equation in flow direction for points A and B:
& 4 & & 4 & #4  4 8#%% 8#%
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5 6  5 6   
&
4  4 
'7 
Apply Continuity equation for points A and B:

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E C>D;A:DA

F  6
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F 

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5 6  5 6 5  85 6 5 6
6

Apply manometer equation to express    :

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8#% & #% #
 & 
!#%  
'#%  
G#% #

#   
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"#%

    

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'#%  "#% 8'G#%
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5 6
follows:

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 3. (a) Apply Bernoulli equation in flow direction for point 1 at water surface of the tank and point 2 at

Q 5Q 6 6 56 6
the outlet stream (jet) from the nozzle:
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RS5BDT Q 6 #
BK>;BN#A>#:A%>;UBMBV 5Q #
5BMW#=:M7B#A:D*

4Q  46  '"#% & !8#% 8#%

56 6
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'7
%
56 X'7
4Q 46  Y'  6
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8!KL, %6   '!KL6 #%, I;
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<=>?#:MB:#?:;#MB:N#OM>%#F P#

the Figure to calculate pressure  with continuity equation to calculate the velocity at point A as follows:
(b) Apply Bernoulli equation in flow direction for point 1 at water surface of the tank and point A given in

Q 5Q 6  5 6
& 4Q & & 4 &
 '7  '7
RS5BDT Q #
BK>;BN#A>#:A%>;UBMBV 5Q #
5BMW#=:M7B#A:D*

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J '!KL6 #%, I;
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 '7

5 6 *+
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