Question Statement:
Fluid Mechanics: Ideal and real fluids, properties of fluids; hydrostatic pressure and its measurement; continuity equation, kinematics and dynamics of flow; Bernoulli's theorem; laminar and turbulent flow in pipes, Darcy- Weisbach and Hazen-Williams equations; flow through orifices, weirs and notches; flow in open channels, dimensional analysis – concepts of geometric dimensionless numbers.
Water flows at velocity 1.6 m/s in a pipe of diameter 8 cm and length 100 m. With coefficient of friction f = 0.005 and g = 9.81 m/s², the head loss (m) due to friction in the pipe is
Options:
- (A) 1.28
- (B) 2.28
- (C) 2.78
- (D) 3.26