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22-Mec-A6 Fluid Machinery: Undated paper

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  1. Question 1 Hydro Turbine Model (Vanderkloof)
  2. Question 2 Compressor First Stage
  3. Question 3 Steam Turbine Blades (Impulse Stage)
  4. Question 4 Pump Operational Characteristics
  5. Question 5 Pump Simulation Equation
  6. Question 6 Fan Control
  7. Question 7 Turbine Blade Flow
  8. Question 8 Pump and Turbine Cavitation and Setting

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Paper format. National Examinations — 16-Mec-A6 Fluid Machinery, May 2019. Closed-book, three hours. Section A is calculative (5 questions) and Section B is descriptive (3 questions); candidates answer four questions from Section A and two from Section B (six questions, 60 marks, 10 marks each). All eight questions are solved as a study resource.

Reference texts. Dixon & Hall, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Turbomachinery (7th ed.); Cohen, Rogers & Saravanamuttoo, Gas Turbine Theory (6th ed.); Fox & McDonald, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (10th ed.); F. M. White, Fluid Mechanics (8th ed.); Çengel & Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach (9th ed.).

Paper. This is the 16-Mec-A6, May 2019 Fluid Machinery examination.