Question: A liquid delivery system is being designed such that ethylene glycol flows out of a hole in the bottom of a large tank. The designers
A liquid delivery system is being designed such that ethylene glycol flows out of a hole in
the bottom of a large tank. The designers need to predict how long it will take for the ethylene
glycol to completely drain. Since it would be very expensive to run tests with a fullscale
prototype using ethylene glycol, they decide to build a onequarter scale model for experimental
testing, and they plan to use water as their test liquid. The model is geometrically similar to the
prototype as shown in the Figure.
a Temperature of the ethylene glycol in the prototype tank is at which
At what temperature should the water in the model experiment be set in order to ensure complete
similarity between model and prototype?
b The experiment is run with water at the proper temperature as calculated in part a It takes
min to drain the model tank. Predict how long it will take to drain the ethylene glycol from
the prototype tank.
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