6.74 Oil (SAE 30) at 15.6 °C flows steadily between fixed, horizontal, parallel plates. The pressure drop per unit length along the channel is 20 kPa/m, and the distance between the plates is 4mm. The flow is laminar. Determine: (a) the volume Tate of flow (per meter of width), (b) the magnitude and direc- tion of the shearing stress acting on the botiom plate, and (¢) the velocity along the centerline of the channel, - 2474 (eq, 6.136) (a) 7 wa -3 WS 3 For f= tam 2 2x10 ‘my f= 0.38 73 ) and Sf 20x00 a? z 3) 4- 2 (2x mn) (20 x10 ey) 2.91 x10 * am 3 (0.38 WS) 7 me th) a3, =p (% . ee) (eg, bred ) Since ws oh 2 (yb) (&g. G134) and vero it fellows That au = BF (ey) and there fore Ty = ZF (4) At the bottom plate, ¥=-R, and since 32 4g, G . SER) = (20 xo, N2410 mn) sig : Oo 4 = HON, acting in the direction of flow mn ce) = £3, 6.138) Umax = N a) (3. ~2(8).3 (281 x10 -% aan eee—sS