module#3 fluid properties
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Prepared by
Engr. Joseph R. Ortenero
Mapua Institute of Technology at Laguna
Malayan Colleges Laguna
Fluid Properties
Surface Tension
represents the stretching work that
needs to be done to increase the
surface area of a liquid by a unit
amount.
The surface tension of a substance
can be changed considerably by
impurities.
Therefore, certain chemicals, called
surfactants, can be added to a liquid to
decrease its surface tension.
Surfactants are
compounds that lower the
surface tension of a liquid,
allowing easier spreading,
and lowering of the
interfacial tension
between two liquids, or
between a liquid and a
solid.
Then a force balance on the
movable wire gives F= 2bσ,
and thus the surface tension
can be expressed as
Note that surface tension acts
along the circumference and
the pressure acts on the area
Capillary Effect
Another interesting
consequence of surface
tension is the capillary
effect, which is the rise or
fall of a liquid in a small-
diameter tube inserted into
the liquid.
Such narrow tubes or
confined flow channels are
called capillaries.
The strength of the capillary effect is
quantified by the contact (or wetting)
angle φ, defined as the angle that the
tangent to the liquid surface makes
with the solid surface at the point of
contact.
CAPILLARY RISE
Viscosity
The shear force acting on a Newtonian fluid layer (or, by Newton’s third law, the force acting on the plate) is
where again A is the contact area between the plate and the fluid.
Then the force F required
to move the upper plate at a
constant velocity of V while
the lower plate remains
stationary is
Sample Problem
The viscosity of a fluid is to be measured by a viscometer
constructed of two 75-cm-long concentric cylinders. The
outer diameter of the inner cylinder is 15 cm, and the gap
between the two cylinders is 0.12 cm. The inner cylinder is
rotated at 200 rpm, and the torque is measured to be 0.8 N-
m. Determine the viscosity of the fluid.
Buoyancy
ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE
The buoyant force acting on a body immersed in a fluid is
equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body, and it
acts upward through the centroid of the displaced volume
For floating bodies, the weight
of the entire body must be
equal to the buoyant force,
which is the weight of the fluid
whose volume is equal to the
volume of the submerged
portion of the floating body.
Sample Problem
WEIGHT LOSS OF AN OBJECT IN SEAWATER
A crane is used to lower weights into the sea (density 1025
kg/m3) for an underwater construction project. Determine
the tension in the rope of the crane due to a rectangular 0.4
m x 0.4-m x 3-m concrete block (density 2300 kg/m3)
when it is (a) suspended in the air and (b) completely
immersed in water.
End Of Lecture