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The document discusses fully developed flow between parallel plates, determining velocity profiles and gradients for the flow. It also discusses boundary layer thickness and properties for laminar flow over flat plates, including velocity profiles, wall shear stress, skin friction coefficient, and drag force.

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The document discusses fully developed flow between parallel plates, determining velocity profiles and gradients for the flow. It also discusses boundary layer thickness and properties for laminar flow over flat plates, including velocity profiles, wall shear stress, skin friction coefficient, and drag force.

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ME 3100: BASIC THERMAL ENGINEERING

Tutorial 5
1. Starting from 2-D Navier Stokes equation, determine the velocity profile of a fully
developed” flow in a channel.

2. Water at 20oC flows between two large stationary parallel plates which are 2 cm apart.
If the maximum velocity is 1m/s, determine (a) average velocity, (b) the velocity
gradients at the plates and (c) the difference in pressure between two points 10 m apart.
Viscosity of water at 20oC is 0.00101 Pa-s. Consider the flow to be a fully developed
one.

3. Consider a steady fully-developed flow of a thin liquid film falling slowly down an
inclined wall. The film thickness is h. The flow is assumed to be “fully-developed”.
Determine the velocity profile.

4. The velocity distribution for a fully-developed laminar flow in a pipe is given by:
𝑅 2 𝜕𝑝 𝑟 2
𝑉𝑥 = − 4𝜇 𝜕𝑥 [1 − (𝑅) ], where x is the axial direction and pipe radius is R. Determine
the radial distance from the pipe axis at which the velocity equals the average velocity.

5. Water flows over a flat plate at a freestream velocity of 0.15 m/s. There is no pressure
gradient and the local laminar boundary layer is 6 mm thick. Assume a sinusoidal
velocity
profile of the form:
𝑢 𝜋 𝑦
= sin⁡[ ( )]
𝑈 2 𝛿
where 𝛿 is the boundary layer thickness. Calculate:
i) local wall shear stress, and
ii) skin friction coefficient
The density of water is 1000 kg/m3 and the viscosity is 0.00101 Pa-s.

6. Air moves over a flat plate with a uniform freestream velocity of 10 m/s. At a position
15 cm away from the front edge of the plate, what is the boundary layer thickness. For
air, kinematic viscosity is 1.5x10-5 m2/s and density is 1.23 kg/m3. Assume a parabolic
velocity profile inside the boundary layer.

7. Water at 15 oC flows over a flat plate at a speed of 1.2 m/s. The plate is 0.3 m long and
2 m wide. The boundary layer on each surface of the plane is laminar. Assume the
velocity profile is linear and for it, boundary layer thickness is given by:

𝑦
= 3.46/√Rex
𝛿
Determine the drag force on the plate, if kinematic viscosity is 1.1x10-6 m2/s and
density is 1000 kg/m3.

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