SAMPLE PROBLEMS

IN FLUID
MACHINERIES
(PROPERTIES OF
FLUID)

SAMPLE PROBLEM 1
If the specific volume of a certain gas is
0.7848 cubic meter per kg, what is the
specific weight in Newton per cubic
meter?
Answer: 12.5 Newton / cubic meter

SAMPLE PROBLEM 2
What is the specific weight of air in
Newton per cubic meter at 480 kPa
absolute and 21 deg. Celsius?
Answer: 55.81 Newton per cubic
meter

SAMPLE PROBLEM 3
A cylindrical tank 80 cm in diameter and 90
cm high is filled with a liquid. The tank and
the liquid weighed 420 kg. The weight of the
empty tank is 40 kg. What is the unit weight
of the liquid in kN per cubic meter?
Answer: 8.24 kN per cubic meter

SAMPLE PROBLEM 4
What pressure is required in MPa to
reduce the volume of the water by 0.6
percent? Bulk modulus of elasticity of
water is 2.2 GPa.
Answer: 13.2 MPa

SAMPLE PROBLEM 5
Water in a hydraulic press, initially at 137
kPa absolute, is subjected to a pressure of
116 280 kPa absolute. Using EB = 2.5 GPa,
determine the percentage decrease in the
volume of water.
Answer: 4.65 %

SAMPLE PROBLEM 6
If 9 cubic meter of an ideal gas at 24 deg. C and
150 kPaa is compressed to 2 cubic meter, (a)
what is the resulting pressure assuming
isothermal conditions. (b) what would have been
the pressure (kPaa) and temperature (deg. C) if
the process is isentropic. Use k = 1.3.
Answer: P2 = 675 kPaa

T2 = 193.4 deg. C

SAMPLE PROBLEM 7
If the viscosity of water is 70 deg. C is 0.00402 poise
and its specific gravity is 0.978, determine its
absolute viscosity in Pa-s and its kinematic viscosity
in square meter per second and in stokes.
Answer: uK = 0.000402 Pa-s
uD = 4.11 x 10^-7 square meter per sec
uD = 4.11 x 10^-3 stokes

SAMPLE PROBLEM 8
Two large plane surfaces are 25 mm apart and the
space between them is filled with a liquid of viscosity
u = 0.958 Pa-s. Assuming the velocity gradient to be
a straight line, what force in Newton is required to
pull a very thin plate of 0.37 square meter area at a
constant speed of 0.3 m/s if the plate is 8.4 mm from
one of the surfaces?
Answer: 19.06 N

SAMPLE PROBLEM 9
A cylinder of 125 mm radius rotates concentrically
inside a fixed cylinder of 130 mm radius. Both
cylinders are 300 mm long. Determine the viscosity
in Pa-s of the liquid which fills the space between the
cylinders if a torque of 0.88 N-m is required to
maintain an angular velocity of 2 pi radian per sec.
Assume the velocity gradient to be a straight line.
Answer: 0.19 Pa-s

SAMPLE PROBLEM 10
An 18-kg slab slides down a 15 deg. inclined
plane on a 3-mm-thick film of oil with viscosity
u = 0.0814 Pa-s. If the contact area is 0.3
square meter, find the terminal velocity (m/s)
of the slab. Neglect air resistance.
Answer: 5.614 m/s

SAMPLE PROBLEM 11
Estimate the height (mm) to which water will
rise in a capillary tube of diameter 3 mm.
Use sigma = 0.0728 Newton per meter and
gamma = 9810 Newton per cubic meter for
water.
Answer: 9.9 mm

SAMPLE PROBLEM 12
Estimate the capillary depression (mm)
for mercury in a glass capillary tube 2
mm in diameter. Use sigma = 0.514
N/m and theta = 140 degrees.
Answer: 5.9 mm

SAMPLE PROBLEM 13
Distilled water stands in a glass tube of
9 mm diameter at a height of 24 mm.
What is the true static height (mm)?
Use sigma = 0.0742 N/m.
Answer: 20.64 mm