Fox and McDonald's Introduction to Fluid Mechanics
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Author: Philip J. Pritchard, John W. Mitchell
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Chapter 4, Problem 33P
Incompressible fluid flows steadily through a plane diverging channel. At the inlet, of height H, the flow is uniform with magnitude V1. At the outlet, of height 2H, the velocity profile is
where y is measured from the channel centerline. Express Vm in terms of V1.
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