FINAL EXAMINATION

AUGUST 2013 SEMESTER

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FLUID MECHANICS 1
KJS 1214
3 HOURS
ENGINEERING
BACH. OF ENG. (HONS.) MECHANICAL
MR. MOHAMAD HAFIZ BIN ISMAIL

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
This paper consists of four (4) questions.
Answer all questions.
All answers must be written in answer booklet provided.
The answer for each question must start on a new page.
Candidates are NOT ALLOWED to bring any unauthorized items into the exam hall
except with the permission of your invigilator.

Do Not Open the Question Paper Until Instructed

This Question Paper Consists of FIVE (5) Printed Pages

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QUESTION 1
a)

A ball bearing with density s is dropped in a cylindrical tank filled with oil at
density o. The ball bearing fall by creeping flow which is define as
= whereas FD , U and R are drag force, velocity and radius of the
2

ball bearing. Show that the dynamic viscosity is given by 9 2 .

[5 marks]

b)

A 25 mm diameter shaft is pulled through a cylindrical bearing as shown in

Figure 1. The lubricant that fills the 0.3 mm gap between the shaft and bearing
is oil having a kinematic viscosity of 8 10-4 m2/s and a specific gravity of
0.91. Determine the force P required to pull the shaft at a velocity of 3m/s.
Assume the velocity distribution in the gap is linear.

Figure 1
[6 marks]

[Total: 11 marks]

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QUESTION 2
a)

The density of a liquid is to be determined by an old 1-cm-diameter cylindrical

hydrometer whose division marks are completely wiped out (Figure 2). The
hydrometer is first dropped in water, and the water level is marked. The
hydrometer is then dropped into the other liquid, and it is observed that the mark
for water has risen 0.6 cm above the liquid-air interface. If the height of the
original water mark is 13.6 cm, determine the density of the liquid.

Figure 2
[4 marks]
b)

The dam in Figure 3 is a quarter-circle 50 m wide into the paper. Determine the
horizontal and vertical components of hydrostatic force against the dam and the
point CP where the resultant strikes the dam.

Figure 3
[8 marks]

[Total: 12 marks]

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QUESTION 3
a)

A pitot-static probe is connected to a water manometer is used to measure the

velocity of air (Figure 4). If difference height between two arms is 7.3 cm,
determine the air velocity. Take the air density to be 1.25 kg/m3

Figure 4
[5 marks]
b)

A reducing elbow in a horizontal pipe is used to deflect water flow while

accelerating it as shown in Figure 5. The elbow discharge water into the
atmosphere. The mass of the elbow and the water in it is 50 kg. Determine the
anchoring force needed to hold the elbow in place. Take the momentum flux
correction factor to be 1.03 and mass flow rate 30 kg/s.

Figure 5
[10 marks]

[Total: 15 marks]

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QUESTION 4
a)

Model tests are to be performed to study the flow through a large check valve
having a 0.6 m diameter inlet and carrying water at a flowrate of 0.85 m3/s as
shown in Figure 6 below. The working fluid in the model is water at the same
temperature as that in the prototype. Complete geometric similarity exists
between model and prototype, and the model inlet diameter is 7.5 cm.
Determine the required flowrate in the model.

Figure 6
[5 marks]
b)

Consider flow of an incompressible fluid of density and dynamic viscosity

through a long, horizontal section of round pipe of diameter D. The velocity
profile is given in Figure 7 below. V is the average speed across the pipe cross
section. The flow is fully developed. Because the frictional forces between the
fluid and the pipe wall, there exists a shear stress w on the inside of pipe wall.
We assume some constant average roughness height along the inside wall of
the pipe. Develop a non-dimensional relationship between shear stress w and
the other parameters in the problem.

Figure 7
[7 marks]
[Total: 12 marks]
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