Questions
- 9101. What is head loss due to sudden contraction?
- 9102. What is head loss due to sudden expansion?
- 9103. What causes minor losses in pipes?
- 9104. What causes major losses in pipes?
- 9105. What are major and minor losses?
- 9106. What is Moody’s chart?
- 9107. Define friction factor.
- 9108. What is Darcy-Weisbach equation?
- 9109. What is pipe friction?
- 9110. Define internal flow.
- 9111. What is skin friction drag?
- 9112. Who proposed boundary layer theory?
- 9113. What are the methods of controlling boundary layer separation?
- 9114. What is flow separation?
- 9115. What is boundary layer separation?
- 9116. Define energy thickness.
- 9117. Define momentum thickness.
- 9118. Define displacement thickness.
- 9119. What is boundary layer thickness?
- 9120. Define boundary layer.
- 9121. What are examples of laminar flow in engineering systems?
- 9122. What are losses in laminar flow?
- 9123. Derive Hagen–Poiseuille equation.
- 9124. What are characteristics of turbulent flow?
- 9125. What are characteristics of laminar flow?
- 9126. What is critical Reynolds number?
- 9127. What is Reynolds experiment?
- 9128. What is transitional flow?
- 9129. What is turbulent flow?
- 9130. What is laminar flow?
- 9131. What is Mach number?
- 9132. What is Weber number?
- 9133. What is Euler number?
- 9134. What is Froude number?
- 9135. What is Reynolds number?
- 9136. Define dimensionless numbers.
- 9137. What is the importance of dimensional analysis?
- 9138. State Buckingham’s π theorem.
- 9139. What are the fundamental dimensions?
- 9140. What is dimensional analysis?
- 9141. What are common errors in flow measurement?
- 9142. Define coefficient of discharge.
- 9143. What are discharge coefficients?
- 9144. What is flow coefficient?
- 9145. What is rotameter?
- 9146. What is flow nozzle?
- 9147. What is a nozzle meter?
- 9148. What is a Pitot tube?
- 9149. What is an orifice meter?
- 9150. What is a Venturi meter?
- 9151. What is total head?
- 9152. What is dynamic pressure?
- 9153. What is the Venturi effect?
- 9154. Define energy line and hydraulic gradient line.
- 9155. What is Euler’s equation of motion?
- 9156. What are applications of Bernoulli’s equation?
- 9157. What assumptions are made in Bernoulli’s theorem?
- 9158. Derive Bernoulli’s equation from Euler’s equation.
- 9159. State Bernoulli’s equation.
- 9160. Define fluid dynamics.
- 9161. What is irrotational flow?
- 9162. Explain velocity potential function.
- 9163. Explain stream function.
- 9164. What is mass flow rate?
- 9165. Define discharge.
- 9166. Define rate of flow.
- 9167. What is the physical significance of continuity equation?
- 9168. Derive the continuity equation for steady incompressible flow.
- 9169. State the continuity equation.
- 9170. What is two-dimensional flow?
- 9171. What is one-dimensional flow?
- 9172. Define uniform and non-uniform flow.
- 9173. What is steady and unsteady flow?
- 9174. What is flow visualization?
- 9175. Define streaklines.
- 9176. Define pathlines.
- 9177. Define streamlines.
- 9178. What is velocity field?
- 9179. Define kinematics of fluid.
- 9180. What factors affect stability of floating bodies?
- 9181. Define floating body.
- 9182. What is submerged body?
- 9183. What is the difference between stable and unstable equilibrium?
- 9184. What are conditions of equilibrium for floating bodies?
- 9185. Define metacentric height.
- 9186. What is metacenter?
- 9187. What is center of buoyancy?
- 9188. What is Archimedes’ principle?
- 9189. Define buoyancy.
- 9190. What are common devices for measuring low and high pressures?
- 9191. How is pressure measured in a pipe?
- 9192. What is Bourdon gauge?
- 9193. What is a pressure transducer?
- 9194. What is an aneroid barometer?
- 9195. Define barometer.
- 9196. What is an inclined tube manometer?
- 9197. What is a differential manometer?
- 9198. What is a U-tube manometer?
- 9199. What is a piezometer?
- 9200. What are the types of manometers?