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The fluid jet discharging from a 2" diameter orifice has a diameter of 1.75" at its vena-contracta. The co-efficient of contraction is

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What is the normal range of exit cone angle of a venturimeter?

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Upto what value of 'Mach number', a fluid may be considered as incompressible?

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The head loss due to sudden contraction is proportional to

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With increase in the shear rate, the apparent viscosity of pseudoplastic fluids

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Boundary layer separation is characterised by one of the conditions given below, where 'Re' is the Reynolds number for the flow. Select the appropriate conditions.

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For the same terminal conditions and fitting size, the least friction loss is incurred in a/an

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The ratio of the depth of flow to the hydraulic radius for the most economical trapezoidal section, in open channel flow is

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The fluid property, due to which, mercury does not wet the glass is

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The net positive suction head (NPSH) of a centrifugal pump is defined as the sum of the velocity head and the pressure head at the

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The excess of the sum of pressure & velocity heads over the vapor pressure of the liquid at the suction is called the

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The vent valve provided in a liquid handling centrifugal pump is

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Stoke's equation is valid in the Reynolds number range

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A liquid is pumped at the rate of 600 litres using 1000 rpm. If the rpm is changed to 1100, the liquid pumped is __________ litres.

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In case of turbulent flow of fluid through a circular pipe, the

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In case of laminar flow of fluid through a circular pipe, the

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Centrifugal compressors compared to reciprocating compressors

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For flow of fluids through packed bed, the superficial velocity is

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Assuming flow to be laminar, if the diameter of the pipe is halved, then the pressure drop will

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Buckingham-π theorem states that in any physical problem including 'n' quantities having 'm' diamensions, the quantities can be arranged into __________ independent dimensionless parameters.

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