Seat No: ______________ Enrollment No: ____________________

PARUL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
B.Tech. Winter 2018 - 19 Examination
Semester: 4 Date:22-12-2018
Subject Code: 03109252 Time:10:30am to 01:00pm
Subject Name: Fluid Mechanics Total Marks: 60

Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
3. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
4. Start new question on new page.

Q.1 Objective Type Questions (15)

1. Kinematic viscosity is the ratio of _________ to _________.
2. Fluid is a substance that cannot resist forces in static condition.
3. Stability of a submerged body depends on the location of ______________ and __________ .
4. Vorticity at any point for irrotational flow field is ________.
5. The flow where the flow properties do not vary with space is called ____________ flow.
6. The line of action of the buoyancy force acts through the,
(a) center of gravity of any submerged body
(b) centroid of the volume of any floating body
(c) centroid of the displaced volume of fluid
(d) centroid of the horizontal projection of the body
7. The maximum efficiency of transmission through a pipe is
(a) 50 % (b) 58.6 % (c) 66.67 % (d) 76.66 %
8. Orificemeter can be used to measure ___________
(a) Cross-sectionally averaged velocity (b) Pressure (c) Volume Flow rate (d) a and c both
9. Streamlines, Streaklines and pathlines are virtually identical for ___________ flow.
(a) Steady & Uniform (b) Unsteady & Uniform
(c) Unsteady & Non-Uniform (d) Unsteady & compressible
10. The weight per unit volume of a liquid at a standard temperature and pressure is called
(a) Specific Weight (b) Mass Density (c) Specific Gravity (d) None of these
11. State Newton’s law of viscosity.
12. What is Meta-centre?
13. What is the use of Dimensional Analysis?
14. What are path lines?
15. Define Vorticity.
Q.2 Answer the following questions. (Attempt any three) (15)
A) Explain Streamline, Streakline and Pathline in brief.
B) Derive an expression of calculating flow rate using a Venturimeter.
C) State and prove Pascal’s Law.
D) The right limb of a simple U-tube manometer containing mercury is open to the atmosphere while
the left limb is connected to a pipe in which a fluid of specific gravity 0.9 is flowing. The center
of the pipe is 12 cm below the level of mercury in the right limb. Find the pressure of the fluid in
the pipe if the difference of mercury level in the two limbs is 20 cm.
Q.3 A) A flat plate of area 1.5 m2 is pulled with a speed of 0.4 m/s relative to another plate located at a (07)
distance of 0.15 mm from it. Determine the force and power required to maintain this speed, if
the fluid separating them is having viscosity as 1 poise.
B) Derive generalized form of Continuity equation (08)
OR
B) A stream function is given by 𝜑 = 3𝑥 2 𝑦 + 4𝑦 2. Determine the magnitude of the velocity at a (08)
point (2,3) of a domain.
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Q.4 A) Derive an expression of velocity distribution across a section for a viscous laminar flow through (07)
circular pipe?
OR
A) Differentiate between the followings in brief, (07)
(i) Steady and Unsteady flow.
(ii) Uniform and Non-Uniform flow.
B) An oil of specific gravity 0.9 and viscosity 0.06 poise is flowing through a pipe of diameter 200 (08)
mm at the rate of 60 liters/sec. Find the head lost due to friction in a pipe of 500 m length.
(Take coefficient of friction = 0.0051.)

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