Tutorial Fluid Dynamics

Question 1
A 12-cm-radius air duct is used to replenish the air of a room 8.2m x 5.0m x 3.5m every 12 min.
How fast does the air flow in the duct?

Question 2
How fast does water flow from a hole at the bottom of a very wide, 4.7-m-deep storage tank filled
with water? Ignore viscosity.
Question 3
A fish tank has dimensions 36 cm wide by 1.0 m long by 0.60 m high. If the filter should process all
the water in the tank once every 3.0 h, what should the flow speed be in the 3.0-cm-diameter input
tube for the filter?
Question 4
A sprinkler head consists of a number of holes of diameter of 1 mm. If the sprinkler is to discharge
1.5 L/s of water of velocity 30 m/s through the holes, determine the number of holes required.
Question 5
The pipe of diameter 300 mm shown below has water flowing at 8 m/s. The pipe then branches into
two with one branch has a diameter of 300 mm and water velocity of 6 m/s and the other branch has
a diameter of 150 mm. Calculate:
i. The total volume flow rate
ii. The total mass flow rate
iii. The velocity in the 150 mm diameter pipe.

f 300mm f 300mm
v = 8 m/s v = 6 m/s

f 150mm
Question 6
What gauge pressure in the water pipes is necessary if a fire hose is to spray water to a height of 16
m?

Question 7
Water flows with the velocity 5 m/s through a pipe of diameter 50 mm, which reduces downstream
to 30 mm diameter. Determine the velocity in the pipe downstream of the reducer and volume flow
rate of upstream pipe.

d = 30 mm
5 m/s

d = 50 mm
Question 8
Engine oil (0.2 Pa.s) passes through a fine 1.80-mm-diameter tube that is 10.2 cm long. What
pressure difference is needed to maintain a flow rate of 6.2 mL/min?
Question 9
What must be the pressure difference between the two ends of a 1.6-km section of pipe, 29 cm in
diameter, if it is to transport oil ( = 950 kg/m3 ,  = 0.2 Pa.s) at a rate of 650 cm3/s?

Question 10
Liquid with RD=1.12 and viscosity 1.65 x 10-3 Pas is pumped at a rate of 2.5 L/s. Determine:

a) the diameter of the inlet pipe to the pump if the inlet velocity is 1.5 m/s.
b) the Reynolds number and the flow regime in (a)
Question 11
Calculate the pressure drop per centimeter length of the aorta when the blood flow rate is 25
liter/min. The radius of the aorta is about 1 cm, and the coefficient of viscosity of blood is 4x10 -2
poise.
Question 12
Compute the drop in blood pressure along a 30-cm length of artery of radius 0.5 cm. Assume that
the artery carries blood at a rate of 8 liter/min
Question 13
How high a column of blood can an arterial pressure of 100 torr support? (The density of blood is
1.05g/cm3)

Question 14
Explain why the viscosity of a liquid decreases with temperature—that is, how might increased
temperature reduce the effects of cohesive forces in a liquid?

Question 15
Explain why the viscosity of a gas increases with temperature—that is, how does increased gas
temperature create more collisions between atoms and molecules?
Question 16
(a) Calculate the retarding force due to the viscosity of the air layer between a cart and a level air
track given the following information—air temperature is 20 0C, the cart is moving at 0.400 m/s, its
surface area is2.50×10−2 m2, and the thickness of the air layer is 6.00×10−5 m.
(b) What is the ratio of this force to the weight of the 0.300-kg cart?

1.81 x 10-5
Question 17
A metal plate of area 2.5×10-4 m2 is placed on a 0.25×10-3 m thick layer of castor oil. If a force of
2.5 N is needed to move the plate with a velocity 3×10 -2 m.s-1, calculate the coefficient of viscosity
of castor oil.
Question 18
Water flows in a rectangular channel. If the width of the channel is 1.5 m, determine the volume
flow rate in the channel.