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This document contains 19 fluid mechanics tutorial questions for chemical engineering students. The questions cover topics like Newtonian fluids, viscosity, surface tension, density, specific gravity, pressure, temperature, volume, mass, force, torque, and capillary rise. They involve calculations related to properties of fluids, forces required to move objects in fluids, pressure changes due to temperature variations, and using measurements to determine viscosity and other fluid properties.

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Tutorial Q Unit One

This document contains 19 fluid mechanics tutorial questions for chemical engineering students. The questions cover topics like Newtonian fluids, viscosity, surface tension, density, specific gravity, pressure, temperature, volume, mass, force, torque, and capillary rise. They involve calculations related to properties of fluids, forces required to move objects in fluids, pressure changes due to temperature variations, and using measurements to determine viscosity and other fluid properties.

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Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

Collage of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Fluid Mechanics Tutorial Question (ChEg 3113)

1. For a Newtonian fluid


(a) Shear stress is proportional to shear strain.
(b) Rate of shear stress is proportional to shear strain.
(c) Shear stress is proportional to rate of shear strain.
(d) Rate of shear stress is proportional to rate of shear strain.
2. In a Newtonian fluid, laminar flow between two parallel plates, the ratio ( ) between the
shear stress and rate of shear strain is given by

3. Which one of the following sets of conditions clearly applies to an ideal fluid?
(a) Viscous and compressible (b) Nonviscous and incompressible.
(c) Nonviscous and compressible (d) Viscous and incompressible.
4. Newton’s law of viscosity depends upon the
(a) Stress and strain in a fluid (b) shear stress, pressure and velocity
(c)Shear stress and rate of strain (d) viscosity and shear stress.

5. If the relationship between the shear stress and the rate of shear strain is expressed

as then the fluid exponent n <1 which types of fluid are stated
6. Surface tension due to
(a) Viscous forces (b) cohesion (c) adhesion (d) the difference between adhesive and
cohesive forces
7. What is viscosity? What is the cause of it in liquids and in gases? Do liquids or gases have
higher dynamic (apparent) viscosity viscosities?
8. Consider two identical small glass balls dropped in two identical containers; one filled with
water the other with oil. Which ball will reach the bottom of the container first?
Why?

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9. A reservoir of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) has a mass of 500kg and a volume of 0.315m3.
determine the (CCl4) weight, Density, specific gravity, specific volume, and specific
weight. (take gravitational acceleration 9.81m/s2).

10. The volume of the rock found to be 0.00015 m3. If the specific gravity of the rock is 2.60,
determine its mass and weight.

11. A spherical balloon with a diameter of 6 m is filled with helium at 20°C and 200 kPa.
Determine the mole number and the mass of the helium in the balloon.
12. The pressure in an automobile tire depends on the temperature of the air in the tire. When
the air temperature is 25°C, the pressure gage reads 210 kPa. If the volume of the tire is
0.025 m3, determine the pressure rise in the tire when the air temperature in the tire rises to
50°C. Also, determine the amount of air that must be bled off to restore pressure to its
original value at this temperature. Assume the atmospheric pressure to be 100 kPa.
13. The viscosity of a fluid is to be measured by a viscometer constructed of two 75-cm-long
concentric cylinders. The outer diameter of the inner cylinder is 15 cm, and the gap between
the two cylinders is 0.12 cm. The inner cylinder is rotated at 200 rpm, and the torque is
measured to be 0.8 N.m. Determine the viscosity of the fluid.

14. When a flat plate of 0.1 m2 area is pulled at a constant velocity of 30 cm/sec parallel to
another stationary plate located at a distance 0.01 cm from it and the space in between is
filled with a fluid of dynamic viscosity 0.001Ns/m2, the force required to be applied is.
15. What is the dimensions of kinematic viscosity of a fluid?

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16. A 50-cm × 30-cm × 20-cm block weighing 150 N is to be moved at a constant velocity of
0.8 m/s on an inclined surface with friction coefficient of 0.27 (a) determine the force F
that needs to be applied in the horizontal direction. (b) if a 0.4 mm tick oil film with a
dynamic viscosity of 0.012 Pa.s is applied between the block and inclined surface,
determine the percent reduction in the required force.

17. The viscosity of a fluid is to be measured by a viscometer constructed of two 40-cm-long


concentric cylinders in the figure below. The outer diameter of the inner cylinder is 12 cm,
and the gap between the two cylinders is 0.15 cm. The inner cylinder is rotated at 300 rpm,
and the torque is measured to be 1.8 N. m. Determine the viscosity of the fluid.

18. If the surface tension of water- air interface is 0.075 N/m, the gauge pressure inside a rain
drop of 1mm diameter will be.
19. The capillary rise at 200C in clean glass tube of 1mm diameter containing water is
approximately.

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