A submarine can be treated as an ellipsoid with a diameter of 5 m and a length of 25 m. Determine the power required for this submarine to cruise horizontally and steadily at 40 km/h in seawater whose density is 1025 kg/m3. Also determine the power required to tow this submarine in air whose density is 1.30 kg/m3. Assume the flow is turbulent in both cases.
Fluid Pressure
The term fluid pressure is coined as, the measurement of the force per unit area of a given surface of a closed container. It is a branch of physics that helps to study the properties of fluid under various conditions of force.
Gauge Pressure
Pressure is the physical force acting per unit area on a body; the applied force is perpendicular to the surface of the object per unit area. The air around us at sea level exerts a pressure (atmospheric pressure) of about 14.7 psi but this doesn’t seem to bother anyone as the bodily fluids are constantly pushing outwards with the same force but if one swims down into the ocean a few feet below the surface one can notice the difference, there is increased pressure on the eardrum, this is due to an increase in hydrostatic pressure.
A submarine can be treated as an ellipsoid with a
diameter of 5 m and a length of 25 m. Determine the power required for this submarine to cruise horizontally and steadily
at 40 km/h in seawater whose density is 1025 kg/m3. Also
determine the power required to tow this submarine in air
whose density is 1.30 kg/m3. Assume the flow is turbulent in
both cases.
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