BITS Pilani

Impact of Jet on Vanes

Problems for practice from R. K. Bansal. You can go through the worked examples 17.1, 17.2, 17.5, 17.11, 17.12.
In this lecture

• Force exerted on fixed and moving plates (flat plate and curved
plate)

• Force exerted a moving curved plate when the jet strikes

tangentially

• Numerical example

• Force exerted by jet striking a series of vanes

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Flat plate
Curved plate
Jet striking tangentially to
curved plate

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Example

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Force exerted by jet of water on
series of vanes
 In this lecture

• Maximum hydraulic efficiency – jet striking a series of vanes

• Pelton wheel

• Analysis of energy transfer in a Pelton wheel

• Maximum efficiency

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