The intake has cross-sectional area of 0.74 m2 and water flow at 0.40 m/s. At the outlet, distance D= 180 m below the intake, the cross-sectional area is smaller than at the intake and the water flows out at 9.5 m/s into equipment.What is the pressure difference between inlet and outlet?
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.
The intake has
cross-sectional area of 0.74 m2 and
water flow at 0.40 m/s. At the outlet,
distance D= 180 m below the intake,
the cross-sectional area is
smaller than at the intake and the
water flows out at 9.5 m/s into
equipment.What is the pressure difference
between inlet and outlet?
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