22-Mec-A6 Fluid Machinery: December 2016

Paper format: National Examination 07-Mec-A6-1 Fluid Machinery, December 2016 — closed book, 3 hours. Section A (Calculative, Q1–Q5) and Section B (Descriptive, Q6–Q8); candidates do four of A and two of B for 60 marks. All eight questions are solved as a study resource. Values marked “from the figure” are read from the examination attachment drawings.

Reference texts: Dixon & Hall, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery (7th ed.); Cohen, Rogers & Saravanamuttoo, Gas Turbine Theory (6th ed.); Turton, Principles of Turbomachinery; Çengel & Boles, Thermodynamics (9th ed.); Fox & McDonald, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (9th ed.). Constants from the paper: $g=9.81\ \text{m/s}^2$, $c_p=1.005\ \text{kJ/kg\,K}$, $k=1.4$, $R=0.287\ \text{kJ/kg\,K}$, $\rho_{water}=1000\ \text{kg/m}^3$, $p_{atm}=100\ \text{kPa}$, $p_{vap}=2.34\ \text{kPa}$.