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Fluid Mechanics Viscosity Assignments

This document contains 10 assignments related to fluid mechanics. The assignments involve calculating viscosity, velocity gradients, shear stresses, torque and power for various fluid flow problems involving plates and shafts moving through fluids with given viscosities, velocities, forces and film thicknesses. Students are to determine values for viscosity, velocity, shear stress, torque and power by applying equations for fluid flow to the conditions described in each assignment.

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Fluid Mechanics Viscosity Assignments

This document contains 10 assignments related to fluid mechanics. The assignments involve calculating viscosity, velocity gradients, shear stresses, torque and power for various fluid flow problems involving plates and shafts moving through fluids with given viscosities, velocities, forces and film thicknesses. Students are to determine values for viscosity, velocity, shear stress, torque and power by applying equations for fluid flow to the conditions described in each assignment.

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ME 6213 FLUID MECHANICS ASSIGNMENT

Group One
A plate having an area of 0.6 m2 is sliding down the inclined plane at 30° to the
horizontal with a velocity of 0.36 m/s. There is a cushion of fluid 1.8 mm thick
between the plane and the plate. Find the viscosity of the fluid if the weight of the
plate is 280 N.

Group Two
A plate 0.05 mm distant from a fixed plate moves at 1.2 m/s and requires a force of
2.2 N/m2 to maintain this speed. Find the viscosity of the fluid between the plates.

Group Three
The space between two square flat parallel plates is filed with oil. Each side of the
plate is 720 mm. The thickness of the oil film is 15 mm. The upper plate, which moves
at 3 m/s requires a force of 120 N to maintain the speed. Determine:
(i) The dynamic viscosity of the oil;
(ii) The kinematic viscosity of oil if the specific gravity of oil is 0.95.

Group Four
The velocity distribution for flow over a plate is gives by u = 2y – y2 where u is the
velocity in m/s at a distance y metres above the plate. Determine the velocity gradient
and shear stress at the boundary and 1.5 m from it. Take dynamic viscosity of fluid
as 0.9 N.s/m2.

Group Five
A lubricating oil of viscosity µ undergoes steady shear between a fixed lower plate and
an upper plate moving at speed V. The clearance between the plates is t. Show that a
linear velocity profile results if the fluid does not slip at either plate.

Group Six
The velocity distribution of flow over a plate is parabolic with vertex 30 cm from the
plate, where the velocity is 180 cm/s. If the viscosity of the fluid is 0.9 N.s/m2 find
the velocity gradients and shear stresses at distances of 0, 15 cm and 30 cm from the
plate.
Group Seven
A fluid has an absolute viscosity of 0.048 Pa-s and a specific gravity of 0.913. For flow
of such a fluid over a solid flat surface, the velocity at a point 75 mm away from the
surface is 1.125 m/s. Calculate the shear stresses at the solid boundary and also at
points 25 mm, 50 mm and 75 mm away from the surface in normal direction, if the
velocity distribution across the surface is (i) linear (ii) parabolic with vertex at the
point 75 mm away from the surface.

Group Eight
A 400 mm diameter shaft is rotating at 200 r.p.m. in a bearing of length 120 mm. If
the thickness of oil film is 1.5 mm and the dynamic viscosity of the oil is 0.7 N.s/m2,
determine:
(i) Torque required to overcome friction in bearing;
(ii) Power utilized in overcoming viscous resistance.
Assume a linear velocity profile.

Group Nine
A 150 mm diameter shaft rotates at 1500 r.p.m. in a 200 mm long journal bearing
with 150.5 mm internal diameter. The uniform annular space between the shaft and
the bearing is filled with oil of dynamic viscosity 0.8 poise. Calculate the power
dissipated as heat.

Group Ten
A 120 mm disc rotates on a table separated by an oil film of 1.8 mm thickness. Find
the viscosity of oil if the torque required to rotate the disc at 60 r.p.m is 3.6 × 10 -4
Nm. Assume the velocity gradient in the oil film to be linear.

Submission Date: 17th June 2022

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