EXAMPLE 4-2 Acceleration of a Fluid Particle through a Nozzle Nadeen is washing her car, using a nozzle similar to the one sketched in Fig. 4-8. The nozzle is 3.90 in (0.325 ft) long, with an inlet diameter of 0.420 in (0.0350 ft) and an outlet diameter of 0.182 in (see Fig. 4-9). The volume flow rate through the garden hose (and through the nozzle) is V = 0.841 gal/min (0.00187 ft/s), and the flow is steady. Estimate the magnitude of the acceleration of a fluid particle moving down the centerline of the nozzle.
EXAMPLE 4-2 Acceleration of a Fluid Particle through a Nozzle Nadeen is washing her car, using a nozzle similar to the one sketched in Fig. 4-8. The nozzle is 3.90 in (0.325 ft) long, with an inlet diameter of 0.420 in (0.0350 ft) and an outlet diameter of 0.182 in (see Fig. 4-9). The volume flow rate through the garden hose (and through the nozzle) is V = 0.841 gal/min (0.00187 ft/s), and the flow is steady. Estimate the magnitude of the acceleration of a fluid particle moving down the centerline of the nozzle.
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acceleration); this term can be nonzero even for steady flows. It accounts
for the effect of the fluid particle moving (advecting or convecting) to a
new location in the flow, where the velocity field is different. For example,
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consider steady flow of water through a garden hose nozzle (Fig. 4-8). We
define steady in the Eulerian frame of reference to be when properties at
any point in the flow field do not change with respect to time. Since the
velocity at the exit of the nozzle is larger than that at the nozzle entrance,
fluid particles clearly accelerate, even though the flow is steady. The accel-
eration is nonzero because of the advective acceleration terms in Eq. 4-9.
FLUID MECHANICS
FIGURE 4-8
Flow of water through the nozzle of
a garden hose illustrates that fluid par- Note that while the flow is steady from the point of view of a fixed observer
ticles may accelerate, even in a steady
flow. In this example, the exit speed
of the water is much higher than the
water speed in the hose, implying that ates as it passes through the nozzle.
fluid particles have accelerated even
though the flow is steady.
in the Eulerian reference frame, it is not steady from the Lagrangian refer-
ence frame moving with a fluid particle that enters the nozzle and acceler-
EXAMPLE 4–2
Acceleration of a Fluid Particle through a Nozzle i
Nadeen is washing her car, using a nozzle similar to the one sketched ini
Fig. 4-8. The nozzle is 3.90 in (0.325 ft) long, with an inlet diameter of ▪
0.420 in (0.0350 ft) and an outlet diameter of 0.182 in (see Fig. 4-9).
The volume flow rate through the garden hose (and through the nozzle) is
V = 0.841 gal/min (0.00187 ft/s), and the flow is steady. Estimate the
magnitude of the acceleration of a fluid particle moving down the centerline
of the nozzle.
SOLUTION The acceleration following a fluid particle down the center of a
nozzle is to be estimated.
Assumptions 1 The flow is steady and incompressible. 2 The x-direction is
taken along the centerline of the nozzle. 3 By symmetry, v = w = 0 along
the centerline, but u increases through the nozzle.
Analysis The flow is steady, so you may be tempted to say that the accel-
eration is zero. However, even though the local acceleration aVlat is identi-
cally zero for this steady flow field, the advective acceleration (V.V)V is not
zero. We first calculate the average x-component of velocity at the inlet and
outlet of the nozzle by dividing volume flow rate by cross-sectional area:
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Inlet speed:
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