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A liquid delivery system is being designed such that ethylene glycol flows out of a hole in the
bottom of a large tank, as in Fig. P7-101. The designers need to predict how long it will take for
the ethylene glycol to completely drain. Since it would be very expensive to run tests with a full-
scale prototype using ethylene glycol, they decide to build a one- quarter scale model for Snap a photo from your
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similar to the prototype (Fig. P7-103). (a) The temperature of the ethylene glycol in the prototype
tank is 60°C, at which v = 4.75 × 10-6 m2/s. At what temperature should the water in the model
experiment be set in order to ensure complete similarity between model and prototype? (b) The
experiment is run with water at the proper temperature as calculated in part (a). It takes 4.53 min
to drain the model tank. Predict how long it will take to drain the ethylene glycol from the
prototype tank.

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Step 1 of 6

We know the relation,

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Step 2 of 6

a) Given,

Temperature of ethylene glycol,

Kinematic viscosity of ethylene glycol at ,

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Step 3 of 6

Here since the model and prototype are geometrically similar,

Therefore, we are only left with one to ensure similarity which is,

Here for both model and prototype g remains same.

Re-arranging the above equation.

……(1)

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Step 4 of 6

We know Kinematic viscosity,

Equation (1) becomes

We know, and

The above equation becomes,

Therefore, to achieve similarity the water temperature should be at a value corresponding to the
Kinematic viscosity,

From the table properties of water the temperature is obtained as,

Therefore, to achieve similarity the temperature of water should be,

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Step 5 of 6

b) Given,

Here we use the functional relation obtained in problem 7-99.

 Since the model is geometrically similar,

Since g is same for both cases.

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Step 6 of 6

We know,

Therefore, the time required for the ethylene glycol from the prototype tank is,

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