Fundamental Fluids
Learning Objectives/Experiments:
- Calibration of a bourdon gauge
- Centre of pressure on a partially and fully submerged plane
- Viscosity apparatus, demonstrating Stoke’s law
- Use of manometers and different types (multitube manometer, U-tube manometer and inclined manometer)
- Bernoulli’s equation and using a Venturi tube as a flow meter
- Losses in bends, measuring and comparing pressure losses of different bend geometries
- Centrifugal pump characteristics, experimentally determining the pressure/flow rate characteristics of a pump and determining the overall efficiency
- Series pumps, experimentally determining the pressure/flow characteristics of 2 pumps connected in series configuration
- Parallel pumps, experimentally determining the pressure/flow characteristics of 2 pumps connected in parallel configuration
