57:020 Mechanics of Fluids and Transport

September 24, 2010

NAME

Fluids-ID
Quiz 3. A piezometer and a Pitot tube are tapped into a horizontal water pipe to measure static and stagnation pressures. For the indicated
water column heights in the figure, determine the velocity at the center
of the pipe.

Bernoulli Eq.:

Solution:

2 22
1 12
+
+ 1 =
+
+ 2
2
2

Noting that point 2 is a stagnation point and thus 2 = 0 and 1 = 2 , the application of the Bernoulli
equation between points 1 and 2 gives

or

1 12
2 22
+
+ 1 =
+
+ 2
2
2
12 2 1
=
2

(+5 points)

The gage pressures at points 1and 2 can be expressed as

1 = (1 + 2 )
2 = (1 + 2 + 3 )
Substituting the 1 and 2 expressions into the Bernoulli equation and solving for 1 gives
1 = 23 = 2(9.81 2 )(0.12 ) = 1.53

(+3 points)

(+2 points)