Recent questions in Fluid Mechanics

A steady incompressible laminar flow passes through a $90^{\circ}$ tube bend placed on a horizontal surface. In horizontal diametric plane, two pressure taps $P_{i}$ and ...

An ideal gas passes isothermally through a long horizontal uniform cross-section pipe under steady flow. Consider that the pressure gradient in the pipe is sufficient for...

Bernoulli's equation CANNOT be applied betweenany two arbitrary points in the flow field for steady incompressible rotational flowany two arbitrary points in the flow fie...

A hydraulic crane supports a mass of $500$ kg with its piston-cylinder actuator, inclined at $60^{\circ}$ with horizontal, as shown in the figure below. The diameter of t...

Water with a density of $1000 \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{m}^{3}$ comes out of an industrial condenser through a horizontal pipe of 15 cm radius at the flow rate of $4.5 \math...

An inward flow reaction turbine, having an outer diameter of $1$ m, runs at $600$ RPM. The normal component of absolute velocity at the inlet is $10 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm...

Let a spherical block of ice at $-7^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ be exposed to atmospheric air at $30^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$ with the gravitational direction as shown in the figure b...

​​​​In a laboratory experiment using a scaled down model to measure scour at a bridge pier, the Froude number is important. The ratio of the prototype length to the model...

​​​For a fully-developed pipe flow, which of the following options is/are correct?For the same maximum velocity, the average velocity is higher in the turbulent regime th...

A pitot tube connected to a U-tube mercury manometer measures the speed of air flowing in the wind tunnel as shown in the figure below. The density of air is $1.23 \mathr...

Consider a velocity field $\vec{V}=3 z \hat{\imath}+0 \hat{\jmath}+C x \: \widehat{k}$, where $C$ is a constant. If the flow is irrotational, the value of $C$ is _______...

​​​​The velocity field of a two-dimensional, incompressible flow is given by\[\vec{V}=2 \sinh x \hat{\imath}+v(x, y) \hat{\jmath}\]where $\hat{\imath}$ and $\hat{\jmath}$...

​​​​​In the pipe network shown in the figure, all pipes have the same cross-section and can be assumed to have the same friction factor. The pipes connecting points $W, N...

​​​Steady, compressible flow of air takes place through an adiabatic convergingdiverging nozzle, as shown in the figure. For a particular value of pressure difference acr...

A liquid fills a horizontal capillary tube whose one end is dipped in a large pool of the liquid. Experiments show that the distance $L$ travelled by the liquid meniscus ...

A second order real system has the following properties.The damping ratio is 0.5 and undamped natural frequency is 10rad/sec, the steady state value at zero is 1.02.the t...

a mixture of carbon dioxide and water vapour is at 100kPa, 200C temperature. As the mixture is cooled at a constant pressure, water vapour begins to condense when the tem...

Air (density $=1.2 \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{m}^3$, kinematic viscosity $=1.5 \times 10^{-5} \mathrm{~m}^2 / \mathrm{s}$ ) flows over a flat plate with a free-stream velocit...