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Fluid Transport Assignment Review

This document contains a 4 question fluid transport assignment for the course CHE 255. It includes the following questions: 1) Calculations involving vector fields including magnitude, direction, and operations. 2) Evaluating the gradient, Laplacian, and curl of given density fields. 3) Finding properties like divergence, gradient, and Laplacian of a given velocity field at a point and time. 4) Calculating acceleration as a function of position for flow through a converging nozzle.

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Fluid Transport Assignment Review

This document contains a 4 question fluid transport assignment for the course CHE 255. It includes the following questions: 1) Calculations involving vector fields including magnitude, direction, and operations. 2) Evaluating the gradient, Laplacian, and curl of given density fields. 3) Finding properties like divergence, gradient, and Laplacian of a given velocity field at a point and time. 4) Calculating acceleration as a function of position for flow through a converging nozzle.

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Submission: 3rd February,

2023.
Time: 3:00pm,
NB: All scripts should be
submitted as one unit by the
course rep. CHE 255: FLUID TRANSPORT
ASSIGNMENT 1: MATHEMATICAL REVIEW

1. For the vector field, 𝑉 ⃗ (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) = (𝑥 2 + 2𝑥 − 2𝑦 2 )𝑖̂ − (3𝑥𝑦 + 𝑦𝑧)𝑗̂ + (5𝑥𝑧 2 − 𝑦𝑧)𝑘̂,
find
a. the magnitude of , 𝑉 ⃗ (2, −1,3).
b. the direction of , 𝑉 ⃗ (−1,2,3).
c. the unit vector in the direction of , 𝑉 ⃗ (1, −1,1).
d. 𝑉⃗ 1 (2, −1,3) ∙ 𝑉
⃗ 2 (1, −1,1), and state the angle the angle between them.
e. 𝑉⃗ 1 (2, −1,3) × 𝑉 ⃗ 2 (1, −1,1).

2. For the given density field, 𝜌(𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧) = 8𝑥𝑦 2 𝑧 + 𝑥 3 𝑧 5 − 𝑥𝑦𝑧, evaluate


a. ∇𝜌, the gradient of the field.
b. ∇2 𝜌, Laplacian of the field.
c. ∇ × ∇𝜌, curl of ∇𝜌.

⃗ (𝑥, 𝑦, 𝑧, 𝑡) = 2𝑡𝑥𝑖̂ − 𝑡 2 𝑦𝑗̂ + 3𝑥𝑧𝑘̂, 𝑚. 𝑠 −1 .


3. A flow is described by the velocity field, 𝑉
Find the following properties of the flow field at the point, p(2,-2,0) after 2.0s;
a. 𝛻 ⋅ 𝑉⃗ , divergence of the field.
b. ∇𝑉⃗ , gradient of the field.
c. ∇2 𝑉⃗ , Laplacian of the field.
d. Acceleration of the field.

4. The flow through a converging nozzle can be approximated by a one – dimensional


velocity distribution 𝑣 = 𝑣(𝑥). For the given nozzle in fig.1 below, the velocity varies
linearly from 𝑉 = 𝑉𝑜 at the entrance to 𝑉 = 3𝑉𝑜 at the exit. Given
2𝑥
𝑉(𝑥) = 𝑉𝑜 (1 + ),
𝐿
Find,
a. The acceleration as a general function of x.
b. The acceleration at the entrance and exit respectively if 𝑉𝑜 = 10.0𝑚. 𝑠 −1 , and 𝐿 =
2.305𝑚.

Fig.1

CHE 255 ASSIGNMENT 1 FLUID TRANSPORT 1 of 1

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