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Consider how pressure gradients and skin friction develop in an empty wind tunnel or water tunnel test section when the flow is incompressible. Here the fluid has viscosity and density and flows into a horizontal cylindrical pipe of length with radius at a uniform horizontal velocity The inlet of the pipe lies at Boundary layer growth on the pipe's walls induces the horizontal velocity on the pipe's centerline to be at however, the pipe-wall boundary layer thickness remains much smaller than . Here, is of order 10 , and The radial coordinate from the pipe centerline is a) Determine the displacement thickness, , of the boundary layer at in terms of and Assume that the boundary layer displacement thickness is zero at [The boundary layer displacement thickness, is the thickness of the zero-flow-speed layer that displaces the outer flow by the same amount as the actual boundary layer. For a boundary layer velocity profile with wall-normal coordinate and b) Determine the pressure difference, between the ends of the pipe in terms of and c) Assume the horizontal velocity profile at the outlet of the pipe can be approximated by: and estimate average skin friction, on the inside of the pipe between and in terms of and d) Calculate the skin friction coefficient, when and the fluid is water, i.e.,
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Question Text | Consider how pressure gradients and skin friction develop in an empty wind tunnel or water tunnel test section when the flow is incompressible. Here the fluid has viscosity and density and flows into a horizontal cylindrical pipe of length with radius at a uniform horizontal velocity The inlet of the pipe lies at Boundary layer growth on the pipe's walls induces the horizontal velocity on the pipe's centerline to be at however, the pipe-wall boundary layer thickness remains much smaller than . Here, is of order 10 , and The radial coordinate from the pipe centerline is a) Determine the displacement thickness, , of the boundary layer at in terms of and Assume that the boundary layer displacement thickness is zero at [The boundary layer displacement thickness, is the thickness of the zero-flow-speed layer that displaces the outer flow by the same amount as the actual boundary layer. For a boundary layer velocity profile with wall-normal coordinate and b) Determine the pressure difference, between the ends of the pipe in terms of and c) Assume the horizontal velocity profile at the outlet of the pipe can be approximated by: and estimate average skin friction, on the inside of the pipe between and in terms of and d) Calculate the skin friction coefficient, when and the fluid is water, i.e., |
Topic | All topics |
Subject | Physics |
Class | Class 12 |