Practice Test: Question Set - 20
1. The length of the tube necessary for the boundary layer to reach the center of the tube and for fully developed flow to be established is called the __________ length.
- (A) Equivalent
- (B) Transition
- (C) Prandtl mixing
- (D) None of these
2. Volute of a centrifugal pump should be designed in a fashion, such that the
- (A) Kinetic head gets converted into static head
- (B) Moving stream gradually reduces velocity
- (C) Mean velocity remains constant
- (D) None of these
3. Diaphragm pumps are used to transport
- (A) Solids
- (B) Liquids
- (C) Fluids
- (D) Slurries
4. For a stable equilibrium of a submerged body (where, G and B are centres of gravity & buoyancy respectively).
- (A) G is above B
- (B) B is above G
- (C) B & G coincide
- (D) None of these
5. Rubber latex is an example of __________ fluid.
- (A) Dilatants
- (B) Newtonian
- (C) Pseudo plastic
- (D) Bingham plastic
6. Which of the following has the maximum compression ratio?
- (A) Blower
- (B) Compressor
- (C) Vacuum pump
- (D) Fan
7. Discharge from a 24 inch pipe of water at 10 ft/sec will be __________ ft3/sec.
- (A) 7.65
- (B) 32.36
- (C) 48.22
- (D) 125.6
8. A mixed flow centrifugal pump
- (A) Employs such an impeller, through which the flow
is a combination of radial & axial flow
- (B) Mixes the two fluids before pumping them
- (C) Pumps the two fluids separately and then mixes them
- (D) Employs impellers in both the radial & axial directions
9. For the same flow rate of a fluid, the pressure drop is the least for
- (A) Venturimeter
- (B) Orificemeter
- (C) Flow-nozzle
- (D) Δp is same for all
10. A compressor that takes suction at a pressure below atmospheric and discharge against atmospheric pressure is called a __________ pump.
- (A) Sump
- (B) Volute
- (C) Vacuum
- (D) Submerged
11. Momentum correction factor used in fluid flow problems accounts for the
- (A) Change in direction of flow
- (B) Change in total energy
- (C) Change in pressure
- (D) Non uniform direction of velocities at inlet & outlet sections
12. For laminar flow of Newtonian fluids through a circular pipe, for a given pressure drop and length & diameter of pipe, the velocity of fluid is proportional to (where, μ = fluid viscosity )
- (A) μ
- (B) 1/μ
- (C) √μ
- (D) 1/√μ
13. Isothermal turbulent flow of a fluid results in decrease of its pressure, which depends on the
- (A) Wall roughness
- (B) Reynolds number
- (C) Both (a) & (b)
- (D) Neither (a) nor (b)
14. Pumping of a corrosive liquid is generally preferred to be done by a __________ pump, as it can be made of a variety of materials including plastics.
- (A) Piston
- (B) Gear
- (C) Positive displacement
- (D) Sump
15. Minimum porosity for fluidization is
- (A) That corresponding to static bed
- (B) That corresponding to completely fluidized bed
- (C) The porosity of the bed when true fluidization begins
- (D) Less than that of the' static bed
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