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Assignment 3
2016
Pages: 5
Questions: 10
UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA
[Australian Maritime College]
Dr Rouzbeh Abbassi
Instructions:
Total marks = 100 (10% of the final Mark)
Fluid Mechanics
Assignment 3
Question 1. In Figure 1, there are 38.1 m of pipe with diameter of 0.051 m, 22.7 m of
pipe with diameter of 0.152 m, and 45.7 m of pipe with diameter of 0.076 m, all cast
iron. There are three 90 elbows and an open globe valve, all flanged. If the exit
elevation is zero, what horsepower is extracted by the turbine when the flow rate is
0.0045m3/s of water at 20C? Note: take = 1000 kg/m3 , = 10-3 kg/m.s and mean
roughness is = 0.26 mm.
(10 marks)
Elevation 30.5m
0.051 m
0.152 m
0.076 m
Question 2. A blower delivers air at 3000 m3/h to the duct circuit in Figure 2. Each duct is
commercial steel and of square cross section, with side lengths a1 = a3 = 20 cm and a2 = a4 =
12 cm. Assuming sea-level air conditions ( = 1.2 kg/m3 , = 1.8 E-5 kg/m.s), estimate the
power required if the blower has an efficiency of 75%, mean roughness of the duct is = 0.046
mm . Neglect minor losses.
(10 marks)
Fluid Mechanics
Assignment 3
Question 3. The showerhead in Figure 3 delivers water at 50C. An orifice-type flow reducer
is to be installed. What flow rate, in gal/min, results without the reducer? What reducer orifice
diameter would decrease the flow by 40 percent? Take = 988 kg/m3 , = 0.54E-3 kg/m.s
and the pressure in the head is p=400 kPa.
(10 marks)
Question 4. A wedge splits a sheet of 20C water, as shown in Figure 4. Both wedge
and sheet are very long into the paper. If the force required to hold the wedge
stationary is F = 124 N per meter of depth into the paper, what is the angle of the
wedge? Take = 998 kg/m3.
(10 marks)
Fluid Mechanics
Assignment 3
7.6 cm
0.61 m
Fluid Mechanics
Assignment 3
(10 marks)
Fluid Mechanics
Assignment 3
Question 10. Estimate the wind velocity necessary to blow over the train car shown
in Figure 9, if the weight of the car is 250 kN and air density air = 1.23 kg/m3
(10
marks)