VISCOUS FLOW

Example 2

Air flows through a cast iron tube of 5mm diameter at an average velocity of 60m/s. Check, whether the flow is laminar or turbulent and then determine the pressure drop in a 0.1m section of the tube. If the flow is made laminar by incorporating a very smooth tube, then determine the gain in the pressure drop. The density and viscosity of air may be taken as and respectively.
Solution
  1. Reynolds number of the flow is given by,

    Since this value is well above 4000, so the flow is certainly turbulent. Thus,
    From the Table-1 and Moody chart, the friction factor for is 0.08
    Thus,

 
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