We wish to know the drag of a blimp which will move in 20C air

( = 1.2 kg/m
3
, = 1.8 x 10
-5
kg/m/s) at 6 m/s.

(a) If a one-thirtieth scale model is tested in water at 20C ( = 998
kg/m
3
, = 1 x 10
-3
kg/m/s), what should the water velocity be?

(b) At this velocity, if the measured water drag on the model is
2700 N, what is the drag on the prototype blimp and the power
required to propel it?
When fluid coats the underside of a horizontal plate (e.g. when
painting a ceiling), it can accumulate in what are known as pendant
drops. Surface tension is the restoring force here, acting upwards
against the weight of the drop.











Given that the surface tension of water is roughly 0.07 N/m,
provide an order of magnitude estimate of the length scale (D) of
the largest pendant water drop that can form.
D
A cylinder with a diameter D floats upright in a liquid, as shown in
the figure below. When the cylinder is perturbed vertically, it will
oscillate about its equilibrium position with an oscillation period T.
This period is a function of the diameter (D), the mass of the
cylinder (m), the density of the liquid () and gravity (g).




(a) Determine, with the aid of dimensional analysis, how the
oscillation period is related to the independent variables.

(b) You are trying to determine the period of oscillation of a 200 m
iceberg in the ocean. You create a 1:1000 scale model in the lab;
the model consists of a block of ice in salt water. The measured
period of oscillation is 0.82 s.

Show that your model automatically matches the relevant
parameter and estimate the period of oscillation of the real iceberg.
The size d of droplets produced by a liquid spray nozzle (such as in
an inkjet printer) is thought to depend on the nozzle diameter D, jet
velocity U, and the properties of the liquid , , and .

You are trying to determine the size of the droplets produced by a
20 m inkjet printer nozzle. To do this, you create a scale model
with ink as the working fluid. The ratio of model size to prototype
size is 100:1.

(a) To ensure that the model is dynamically similar to the
prototype, what should the jet velocity be? In an inkjet printer, it is
approximately 5 m/s.

(b) If the droplets in the model are 1.5 mm in diameter, what size
are the droplets produced in the printer?
A lock in a shipping canal, designed to move ships safely from one
water level to the next, is supplied with water by a gravity feed
system. The prototype is to be studied with a reduced-scale,
geometrically similar laboratory model with water as the working
fluid. The ratio of model size to prototype size is 1:100. If the
model lock fills in 55 seconds, estimate the time for the prototype
to fill. If the flow rate filling the lock is 0.25 L/s in the model,
estimate the flow rate in the prototype.