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The document contains tutorial problems for a fluid mechanics course, focusing on various flow scenarios including flow over a cylinder, pressure measurement in a tube, fluid dynamics from a faucet, and flow measurement using a nozzle. Each problem requires the application of fluid mechanics principles to derive expressions for pressure, force, and flow rates. The problems emphasize steady, incompressible flow and neglect frictional effects in calculations.

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Tutorial Problelems

The document contains tutorial problems for a fluid mechanics course, focusing on various flow scenarios including flow over a cylinder, pressure measurement in a tube, fluid dynamics from a faucet, and flow measurement using a nozzle. Each problem requires the application of fluid mechanics principles to derive expressions for pressure, force, and flow rates. The problems emphasize steady, incompressible flow and neglect frictional effects in calculations.

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Tutorial Problems

AM2530 Foundations of Fluid Mechanics

1. Steady, frictionless, and incompressible flow from left to right over a stationary circular cylinder of radius
a is represented by the velocity field
  a 2    a 2 
⃗
V =U 1− cos θ êr − U 1 + sin θ êθ
r r

where:
• U is the freestream velocity,
• r is the radial distance from the center of the cylinder,
• a is the radius of the cylinder,
• θ is the angular position in polar coordinates.
Obtain an expression for the pressure distribution along the streamline forming the cylinder surface r = a.
Determine the locations where the static pressure on the cylinder is equal to the freestream static pressure.

2. Water flows at low speed through a circular tube with an inside diameter of 0.0508 m. A smoothly
contoured body of 0.0381 m diameter is held in the end of the tube where the water discharges to the
atmosphere. Neglect frictional effects and assume uniform velocity profiles at each section. Determine the
pressure measured by the gauge and the force required to hold the body.

3. Water flows out of a kitchen faucet of 1.25 cm diameter at the rate of 0.1 L/s. The bottom of the sink is 45
cm below the faucet outlet. Will the cross-sectional area of the fluid stream increase, decrease, or remain
constant between the faucet outlet and the bottom of the sink? Explain briefly. Obtain an expression
for the stream cross-section as a function of distance y above the sink bottom. If a plate is held directly
under the faucet, how will the force required to hold the plate in a horizontal position vary with height
above the sink? Explain briefly.
4. A flow nozzle is a device for measuring the flow rate in a pipe. This particular nozzle is to be used to
measure low-speed air flow for which compressibility may be neglected. During operation, the pressures p1
and p2 are recorded, as well as upstream temperature, T1 . Find the mass flow rate in terms of ∆p = p2 −p1
and T1 , the gas constant for air, and device diameters D1 and D2 . Assume the flow is frictionless. Will
the actual flow be more or less than this predicted flow? Why?

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