FLUID MECHANICS FUNDAMENTALS+APPS
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Chapter 11, Problem 107P
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The tension in the rope when the winds are blowing along the blimp.
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Consider a blimp that can be approximated as a 3-m diameter, 8-m long ellipsoid and is connected to the ground. On a windless day, the rope tension due to the net buoyancy effect is measured to be 120 N. Determine the rope tension when there are 50 km/h winds blowing along the blimp (parallel to the blimp axis).
a smooth flat plate of length 5 m and width 2 m is moving with a velocity of 4 m/s in stationary air of density as 1.25 kg/m³ and kinematic viscosity 1.5 x 10-5 m²/s. determine thickness of the boundary layer at the trailing edge of the smooth plate. find the total drag on one side of the plate assuming that the boundary layer is turbulent from the very beginning.
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