Tutorial # 1- Laminar Flow

1. A horizontal pipe 50 mm diameter carrying glycerin has shear stress at the pipe boundary
as 196.2 N/m2 [20 kg (f)/m2]. Determine the pressure gradient, mean velocity and
Reynolds number. Take for glycerin 𝜌 = 1275.3 kg/m3 (130 msl/m3) and μ = 80.442 ×
10–2N.s/m3 [8.20 × 10–2kg(f)–s/m2].
2. Two parallel plates kept 0.1 m apart have laminar flow of oil between them with a
maximum velocity of 1.5 m/s. Calculate the discharge per meter width, the shear stress at
the plates, the difference in pressure in pascals between two points 20 m apart, the
velocity gradient at the plates and velocity at 0.02 m from the plate. Take viscosity of oil
to be 2.453 N.s/m .
3. A small glass sphere of specific gravity 2.65 has a diameter of 3 mm. If the sphere falls
0.6 m in 30 seconds through a liquid of specific gravity 0.85, what is the absolute
viscosity of the liquid?
4. Find the radial location in a steady, fully developed, laminar flow in a circular horizontal
pipe where the local velocity is equal to the average velocity.