NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Chemical Engineering

CH2003D - Fluid Mechanics
Date: 16/11/2020 Test 3 Total Marks: 10

1. Determine (a) the pressure drop, (b) the head loss, and (c) the pumping power
requirement to overcome the pressure drop for the following case. Water at 15℃
(𝜌 = 999.1 kg/m3 and 𝜇 = 1.138x10-3 kg/m·s) is flowing steadily in a 30-m-long
and 5-cm-diameter horizontal pipe made of stainless steel at a rate of 9 L/s.
[0.5 marks extra if you use Colebrook equation instead of Moody Chart] (3)

2. Show that for laminar flow through a pipe; (2)

a. Shear stress is maximum at the walls
b. Average velocity 𝑉 = 0.5 𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑥 , maximum velocity.

3. A vertical pipe of diameter 0.2 m is fitted with a Venturimeter with throat

diameter of 0.1m in which liquid of relative density 0.8 flows downwards.
Pressure gauges are fitted to the inlet and to the throat sections. The throat being
0.914m below the inlet. Taking the coefficient of the meter as 0.97 find the
discharge
 When the pressure gauges read the same (2)
 When the inlet gauge reads 15170 N/m2 higher than the throat gauge. (2)

4. Draw the development of velocity profile in the hydrodynamic entrance region

for laminar flow in a pipe (1)

Data and Equations

Specific roughness of Steel = 0.002 mm

Colebrook Equation