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This document contains 5 practice fluid mechanics problems related to flow through pipes and between plates. Problem 1 involves calculating the exit velocity of water flowing through a porous pipe section. Problem 2 estimates the time required to fill a cylindrical surge tank from pipe flow. Problem 3 determines the ratio of entrance to maximum exit velocity for flow through a round pipe. Problem 4 computes the volume flow across the top surface of a control volume for fluid flowing past a flat plate. Problem 5 calculates the maximum exit velocity for developed laminar flow between parallel plates.

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Tutorial and Practice Problems

This document contains 5 practice fluid mechanics problems related to flow through pipes and between plates. Problem 1 involves calculating the exit velocity of water flowing through a porous pipe section. Problem 2 estimates the time required to fill a cylindrical surge tank from pipe flow. Problem 3 determines the ratio of entrance to maximum exit velocity for flow through a round pipe. Problem 4 computes the volume flow across the top surface of a control volume for fluid flowing past a flat plate. Problem 5 calculates the maximum exit velocity for developed laminar flow between parallel plates.

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ME231 Fluid Mechanics

TUTORIAL and PRACTICE PROBLEMS 3


Week of 1st February 2024

1. Water flowing through an 8-cm-diameter pipe enter a porous section, as in Fig. P3.10, which
allows a uniform radial velocity vw through the wall surfaces for a distance of 1.2 m. If the
entrance average velocity V1 is 12 m/s, find the exit velocity V2 if (a) vw = 15 cm/s out of the pipe
walls or (b) vw = 10 cm/s into the pipe. (c) What value of vw will make V2 = 9 m/s?

2. The pipe flow in Fig. P3.12 fills a cylindrical surge tank as shown. At time t = 0, the water
depth in the tank is 30 cm. Estimate the time required to fill the remainder of the tank.

3. Water, assumed incompressible, flows steadily through the round pipe in Fig. P3.15. The
entrance velocity is constant u = U0, and the exit velocity approximates turbulent flow,
u = umax (1 − r / R ) . Determine the ratio U 0 / umax for this flow.
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4. An incompressible fluid flows past an impermeable flat plate, as in Fig. P3.16, with a uniform
inlet profile u = U0 and a cubic polynomial exit profile

 3 −  3  y
u  U0   where  =
 2  

Compute the volume flow Q across the top surface of the control volume.

5. Incompressible steady flow in the inlet between parallel plates in Fig. P3.17 is uniform,
u = U 0 = 8 cm/s, while downstream the flow develops into the parabolic laminar profile
u = az ( z0 − z ) , where a is a constant. If z 0 = 4 cm and the fluid is SAE 30 oil at 20oC, what is the
value of umax in cm/s?

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