Fluid Mechanics Lab Archives

Redwood Viscometer Experiment: Kinematic Viscosity vs Temperature

The Redwood viscometer experiment measures the kinematic viscosity of an oil by timing how long a fixed volume takes to […]

Cavitation is the formation and subsequent violent collapse of vapour-filled bubbles in a flowing liquid when the local static pressure

Water hammer is a pressure surge (hydraulic shock) that occurs when a moving column of liquid in a pipe is

Buoyancy is the upward force a fluid exerts on any object placed in it. Archimedes’ principle states that this upward

Surface tension is the property of a liquid surface that makes it behave like a stretched elastic membrane, caused by

Priming of a pump is the process of filling the pump casing and suction pipe completely with liquid to drive

The boundary layer is the thin region of fluid immediately next to a solid surface where velocity rises from zero

Bernoulli’s principle states that within a steady, incompressible, frictionless flow, an increase in a fluid’s velocity occurs alongside a decrease

In an impulse turbine all the fluid’s pressure energy is converted into kinetic energy in a fixed nozzle before the

The core difference between a centrifugal vs reciprocating pump is the energy-transfer mechanism: a centrifugal pump is a rotodynamic machine