Question: Professor Walter Tunnel must measure velocity in a water tunnel. Due to budgetary restrictions, he cannot afford a pitot-static tube, so he inserts a total-head

Professor Walter Tunnel must measure velocity in a water tunnel. Due to budgetary restrictions, he cannot afford a pitot-static tube, so he inserts a total-head probe and a static-head probe, as shown, both in the mainstream away from the wall boundary layers. The two probes are connected to a manometer. (a) Write an expression for tunnel velocity V in terms of the parameters in the figure. (b) Is it critical that h1 be measured accurately? (c) How does part (a) differ from a Pitot - static tube formula?

Professor Walter Tunnel must measure

total head (1) hl static head (2) h2 h3

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