Mec nic de Fluidos. Problems propuestos, Tems 1, 2.

1. You must design a piping system to handle a sludge waste product. However, you dont
know the properties of the sludge, so you test it in a cup-and-bob viscometer with a cup
diameter of 10 cm, a bob diameter of 9.8 cm, and a bob length of 8 cm. When the cup is
rotated at 2 rpm, the torque on the bob is 2.4104 dyncm, and at 20 rpm, it is 6.5104
dyncm.
a) If you use the power law model to describe the sludge, what are the values of the
flow index and consistency?
b) If you use the Bingham plastic model instead, what are the values of the yield
stress and limiting viscosity?

2. You would like to determine the pressure drop in a slurry pipeline. To do this, you need to
know the rheological properties of the slurry. To evaluate these properties, you test the
slurry by pumping it through a 1/8 in. ID tube that is 10 ft long. You find that it takes a 5 psi
pressure drop to produce a flow rate of 100 cm3/s in the tube and that a pressure drop of
10 psi results in a flow rate of 300 cm3/s.
a) What can you deduce about the rheological characteristics of the slurry from these
data?
b) If it is assumed that the slurry can be adequately described by the power law
model, what would be the values of the appropriate fluid properties (i.e., the flow
index and consistency parameter) for the slurry?
3. The following data were measured for the viscosity of a 500 ppm polyacrylamide solution
in distilled water:
Shear rate (s-1)
Viscosity (cP)

2
100

3.5
80

8
50

15
30

40
22

80
15

120
11

200
8

350
6

700 2000 4500

5 3.3 2.2

Find the model that best represents these data, and determine the values of the model
parameters by fitting the model to the data.

Fecha de entrega: lunes 22 de octubre en clase de teora o al profesor del grupo de prcticas.