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This document contains 10 fluid mechanics problems related to fluid kinematics. The problems cover topics like determining velocity fields, stagnation points, streamlines, vorticity, and fluid acceleration and flow past spheres.

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Assignment #4

This document contains 10 fluid mechanics problems related to fluid kinematics. The problems cover topics like determining velocity fields, stagnation points, streamlines, vorticity, and fluid acceleration and flow past spheres.

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Kafrelsheikh University Second Year

Faculty of Engineering Fluid Mechanics


Mechanical Engineering Nov. , 2013

Chapter 4: Fluid Kinematics


Assignment #4

1. The velocity field of a flow is given by



 
1/ 2 

V  20 y / x2  y 2 i  20 x / x 2  y 2 1/ 2 
j where x and y are in meter. Determine the
fluid speed at points along the x axis; along the y axis. What is the angle between the
velocity vector and the x axis at points (x, y)=(5, 0), (5, 5), and (0, 5)?
2. The components of a velocity field are given by u  x  y , v  xy 3  16 , and w  0 .
Determine the location of any stagnation points (V  0) in the flow field.
3. The x and y components of velocity for a two-dimensional flow are u  6 y m/s, and
v  3 m/s, where y is in meter. Determine the equation for the streamlines and sketch
representative streamlines in the upper half plane.

4. Show that the streamlines for a flow whose velocity components are u  c x 2  y 2 and 
v  2cxy , where c is a constant, are given by the equation x2 y  y3 / 3  constsnt . At
which point (points) is the flow parallel to the y axis? At which point (points) is the fluid
stationary?
5. As shown in Fig. 1, a flying airplane produces swirling flow near the end of its wings. In
certain circumstances this flow can be approximated by the velocity field
   
u  ky / x2  y 2 and v  kx / x 2  y 2 , where K is a constant depending on various
parameters associated with the airplane (i.e., its weight, speed) and x and y are measured
from the center of the swirl. (a) Show that for this flow the velocity is inversely

proportional to the distance from the origin. That is, V  k / x 2  y 2 
1/ 2
, and (b) Show
that the streamlines are circles.

Figure 1 Schematic of Problem # 5


  
6. A velocity field in a plane flow is given by V  2 yt i  xj m/s. Find the acceleration, the
angular velocity, and the vorticity vector at the point (4 m, 2 m) at t =3 s.

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7. Find the rate-of-change of the density in a stratified flow where   10001  0.2 z  and

 

the velocity is V  10 z  z 2 i
8. Water flowing from the oscillating slit shown in Fig.2 produces a velocity field given by
  
V  u0 sint  y / v0  i  v0 j where u0, v0, and  and are constants. Thus, the y
component of velocity remains constant (v=v0) and the x component of velocity at y=0
coincides with the velocity of the oscillating sprinkler head u  u0 sin wt  at y  0 .
Determine the streamline that passes the origin at t = 0; at t = /2.

Figure 2 Schematic of Problem #8



 
 
9. A velocity field is given by V  3 y 2  3x 2 i  cxyj . Determine the value of the
constant C if the flow is to be irrotational.
10. Consider a sphere of radius R immersed in a uniform streamU0, as shown in Fig. 3. The
fluid velocity along streamline AB is given by
   R3  
V  u i  U 0 1  3  i

 x 
Find (a) the position of maximum fluid acceleration along AB and (b) the time required
for a fluid particle to travel from A to B.

Figure 2 Schematic of Problem #10

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