Fluid Mechanics: Summer 2015 AE340

A. Chaudhuri

Ch 2&3

1. Choose appropriate answer(s)/ fill in the blanks of the following:

i Viscosity of a fluid is primarily function of

. (Fill in)

ii What is Mach number ?

iii The value of specific gas constant of Air, R is
J
N
J
J
(ii) 287
(iii) 287
(iv) 287
.
(i) 287
mol.K
kg.K
kg
g.K
iv Unit of Kinematic viscosity is
m2
kg.m
kg
(i)
, (ii)
, (iii)
, (iv) dimensionless.
s
s
m.s
v

du
is ? (i) Shear stress, (ii) Shear strain, (iii) Shear strain rate, (iv) Shear force.
dy

vi Unit of Surface tension is

N
N.s
N
, (iii) 2 , (iv) N .
(i) , (ii)
m
kg
m
vii Fluid flow with a Mach number 0.4 is a (i) Sonic flow, (ii) Subsonic flow, (iii) Supersonic
flow, (iv) Hypersonic flow.
viii Contact angle of a fluid, > 90 implies it is (i) Non wetting fluid, (ii) Wetting fluid.
ix A 2D fluid-flow means any flow property , can be expressed as (i) (x, y, z, t), (ii)
(x, y, z), (iii) (x, y, t), (iv) (x, t), (v) (x, y).
x Which of the following denote the effect of compressibility of a fluid flow (i) Reynolds
number, (ii) Mach number, (iii) Knudsen number, (iv) Cavitation number.
xi Reynolds number, Re =

DV
is the ratio of Inertial force to

force. (Fill

in)
xii What is vacuum pressure ?
xiii Governing equation of hydrostatics considers shear forces (T/F).
xiv Centre of pressure of a plane submerged surface lies
submerged plane (Fill in).
xv For a fluid flow, shear stress is proportional to

the centroid of the

. (Fill in)

xvi In a steady flow any fluid field variable may change in space and time (T/F).
xvii A closed system can not exchange both mass and energy with its surrounding (T/F).
xviii High precision necessarily means high accuracy (T/F).
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xix An intensive property is mass

. (Fill in)

xx Specific gravity of a liquid > 1 implies density of the liquid is lower that that of water
(T/F).
xxi Specific gas constant (R) is same for all gases (T/F).
xxii Water can never boil at a lower temperature lower than 100 C (T/F).
xxiii Stokes is unit of ? (i), (ii), (iii)/, (iv)
xxiv Surface tension of a liquid can be defined as the work-done to create (i) unit length, (ii)
unit surface area, (iii) unit volume.
xxv In boundary layer viscous effects are negligible (T/F).
xxvi Air movement in earth surface is an examples of (i) forced flow, (ii) can be both steady/unsteady
flow, (iii) natural flow, (iv) None
xxvii Specific weight () is

(Fill in).

xxviii Corn starch and quicksand are examples of shear i) thinning fluid ii) thickening fluid.
xxix Both wood and foam (F < W ) of same size floats in water implies the buoyant forces:
(i)FB,F > FB,W , (ii)FB,F = FB,W , (iii)FB,F < FB,W .
xxx Define a Newtonian Fluid.

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