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Fluid Mechanics Questions

This document contains 20 fluid mechanics problems involving concepts like pressure, density, specific gravity, buoyancy, forces on surfaces, and hydrostatic force calculations. The problems involve calculating pressures, densities, forces and heights for various fluid scenarios including tanks, manometers, gates, cylinders, and floating/submerged objects. The document requests calculations of quantities like pressure differences, fluid weights, forces on surfaces, heights and depths, ratios of distances, and tensions in strings.

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Fluid Mechanics Questions

This document contains 20 fluid mechanics problems involving concepts like pressure, density, specific gravity, buoyancy, forces on surfaces, and hydrostatic force calculations. The problems involve calculating pressures, densities, forces and heights for various fluid scenarios including tanks, manometers, gates, cylinders, and floating/submerged objects. The document requests calculations of quantities like pressure differences, fluid weights, forces on surfaces, heights and depths, ratios of distances, and tensions in strings.

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Assignment # 1 – ME2001D- Fluid Mechanics – A Batch - Monsoon 2019-2020

Submission Date: 05/09/2019

1. Convert a pressure head of 10 m of water column to kerosene of specific gravity 0.8 and CCl4 of
specific gravity of 1.62.

2. In top left figure, the tank contains water and immiscible oil at 20C. What is h in centimeters if
the density of the oil is 898 kg/m3?
3. From the top right figure, find PA-PB. Take the specific weights of Benzene: 8640 N/m3.
Mercury: 133100 N/m3 Kerosene: 7885 N/m3 Water: 9790 N/m3
4. Determine (a) the gauge pressure and (b) The absolute pressure of water at a depth of 9 m from
the surface.
5. Consider a double-fluid manometer attached to an
air pipe shown in the left figure. If the specific
gravity of one fluid is 13.55; determine the specific
gravity of the other fluid for the indicated absolute
pressure of air. Take the atmospheric pressure to be
100 kPa.
6. If the pressure in container A in right figure is 200
kPa, compute the pressure in container B.
7. A container filled with oil (SG 0.85) is 7 m long and 3 m deep
and has a trapezoidal cross-section 2 m wide at the bottom and 4
m wide at the top, as shown in Figure. Compute (a) the weight
of oil in the container; (b) the force on the bottom; and (c) the
force on the trapezoidal end panel.
8. The cylindrical tank in the figure has a 35-cm-high cylindrical insert in the bottom.
The pressure at point B is 156 kPa. Find (a) the pressure in the air space; and (b) the
force on the top of the insert. Neglect air pressure outside the tank.
9. A cubical tank is 3 ×3 ×3 m and is layered with 1 meter of fluid of specific gravity
1.0, 1 meter of fluid with SG 0.9, and 1 meter of fluid with SG 0.8. Neglect
atmospheric pressure. Find (a) the hydrostatic force on the bottom; and (b) the force
on a side panel.
10. Gate AB in the bottom left figure is a homogeneous mass of 180 kg, 1.2 m wide into the paper,
resting on smooth bottom B. All fluids are at 20C. For what water depth h will the force at
point B be zero?
11. A uniform block of steel (SG 7.85)
will “float” at a mercury-water
interface as in the centre figure. What
is the ratio of the distances a and b
for this condition?
12. The balloon in the right figure is filled with helium and pressurized to 135 kPa and 20C. The
balloon material has a mass of 85 g/m2. Estimate (a) the tension in the string, and (b) the height
in the standard atmosphere to which the balloon will rise if the string is cut.
13. A vertical lock gate is 4 m wide and separates 20°C water levels of 2 m and 3 m, respectively.
Find the moment about the bottom required to keep the gate stationary.
14. Gate AB in the figure is 1.2 m long and 0.8 m into the paper.
Neglecting atmospheric-pressure effects, compute the force F on the
gate and its center of pressure position X.
15. Archimedes, when asked by King Hiero if the new crown was pure
gold (SG 19.3), found the crown weight in air to be 11.8 N and in
water to be 10.9 N. Was it gold?
16. An average table tennis ball has a diameter of 3.81 cm and a mass of
2.6 gm. Estimate the (small) depth h at which the ball will float in
water at 20C and sea level standard air if air buoyancy is (a)
neglected; or (b) included.

17. An opening in a dam is covered with a plate of 1 m square and is hinged on


the top and inclined at 60 0 to the horizontal. If the top edge of the gate is 2
m below the water level what is the force required to open the gate by
pulling a chain set at 45 0 angle with the plate and set to the lower end of
the plate. The plate weighs 2200 N.

18. A gate closing an opening is triangular in cross section and 1 m long. It is


hinged on the top and freely supported at one of the bottom ends as
shown in the figure. If the gate weighs 25 kN/m 3. Find the height of the
water that will automatically open the gate.

19. A solid cylinder of 2.4 m diameter and 2.5 kN weight rests on


the bottom of a tank which is one meter long. Water and oil
(specific gravity 0.75) are poured into the two sides of the
cylinder up to a depth of 0.6m and 1.2 m respectively. Find the
magnitude of the horizontal and vertical component of the force
that keeps the cylinder touching the tank bottom.

20. A quarter circle (10 m diameter) gate which is 10 m wide


perpendicular to the paper holds water as shown in the figure.
Find the force required to hold the gate. The weight of the gate
can be neglected.

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