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Chapter 1 Viscosity and the Mechanisms of Momentum Transport
1A.3
Computation of the viscosities of gases at low
density. Predict the viscosities of molecular oxygen, nitro-
gen, and methane at 20°C and atmospheric pressure, and
express the results in mPa
.
s. Compare the results with ex-
perimental data given in this chapter.
Answers: 0.0202,0.0172,0.0107 mPa
.
s
1A.4
Gas-mixture viscosities at low density. The fol-
lowing data2 are available for the viscosities of mixtures of
hydrogen and Freon-12
(dichlorodifluoromethane)
at 25°C
and 1 atm:
MolefractionofH,:
0.00 0.25
0.50
0.75 1.00
p
X
lo6
(poise): 124.0
128.1
131.9
135.1 88.4
Use the viscosities of the pure components to calculate the
viscosities at the three intermediate compositions by
means of Eqs. 1.4-15 and 16.
Sample answer: At 0.5,
p
=
0.01317 cp
1A.5
Viscosities of chlorine-air mixtures at low den-
sity. Predict the viscosities (in cp) of chlorine-air mixtures
at 75°F and
1
atm, for the following mole fractions of chlo-
rine: 0.00, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00. Consider air as a single
component and use Eqs. 1.4-14 to 16.
Answers:
0.0183,0.0164,0.0150,0.0139,0.0130
cp
1A.6
Estimation of liquid viscosity. Estimate the viscosity
of saturated liquid water at O°C and at lOVC by means of
(a) Eq. 1.5-9, with
AU,,
=
897.5 Btu/lb,,, at 100°C, and (b)
Eq. 1.5-1 1. Compare the results with the values
in
Table
1
.l-2.
Answer: (b) 4.0 cp, 0.95 cp
1A.7
Molecular velocity and mean free path. Compute
the mean molecular velocity
ii
(in cm/s) and the mean free
path
h
(in cm) for oxygen at
1
atm and 273.2
K.
A
reason-
able value for d is 3
A.
What is the ratio of the mean free
path to the molecular diameter under these conditions?
What would be the order of magnitude of the correspond-
ing ratio in the liquid state?
Answers:
ii
=
4.25
X
lo4
cm/s,
h
=
9.3
X
lo-'
cm
lB.l Velocity profiles and the stress components
qj.
For each of the following velocity distributions, draw a
meaningful sketch showing the flow pattern. Then find all
the components of
T
and pvv for the Newtonian fluid. The
parameter
b
is a constant.
(a) v,
=
by, v,
=
0, v,
=
0
(b)
u,
=
by,
u,
=
bx,
v,
=
0
(c)
v,
=
-by, v,
=
bx, v,
=
0
(d) v,
=
-$bx, v,
=
-+by,
vZ
=
bz
1B.2
A
fluid in a state of rigid rotation.
(a) Verify that the velocity distribution (c) in Problem lB.l
describes a fluid in a state of pure rotation; that is, the fluid
is rotating like a rigid body. What is the angular velocity of
rotation?
(b) For that flow pattern evaluate the symmetric and anti-
symmetric combinations of velocity derivatives:
(i)
(dv,/dx)
+
(dv,/dy)
(ii) (du,/dx)
-
(dv,/dy)
(c)
Discuss the results of (b) in connection with the devel-
opment in s1.2.
1B.3
Viscosity of suspensions. Data of Vand3 for sus-
pensions of small glass spheres in aqueous glycerol solu-
tions of
ZnI,
can be represented up to about
q5
=
0.5 by the
semiempirical expression
Compare this result with
Eq.
1.6-2.
Answer: The Mooney equation gives a good fit of Vand's
data if
4,
is assigned the very reasonable value of 0.70.
lC.l Some consequences of the Maxwell-Boltzmann
distribution. In the simplified kmetic theory in s1.4, sev-
eral statements concerning the equilibrium behavior of a
gas were made without proof. In this problem and the
next, some of these statements are shown to be exact
consequences of the Maxwell-Boltzmann velocity distri-
bution.
The Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution of molecular ve-
locities in an ideal gas at rest is
f(u,, u,,
u,)
=
n(rn/2n-~T)~'~ exp(-rnu2/2~T) (1C.1-1)
in which u is the molecular velocity, n is the number
density, and f(u,, u,, u,)du,du,du, is the number of mole-
cules per unit volume that is expected to have velocities
between
u,
and u,
+
du,, u, and u,
+
du,, u, and u,
+
du,.
It follows from this equation that the distribution of the
molecular speed
u
is
f (u)
=
4.rm~~(rn/2.rr~T)~'~ exp(-rnu2/2~T) (1C.1-2)
(a) Verify Eq. 1.4-1 by obtaining the expression for the
mean speed
ii
from
-
lom
uf (u)du
u=
rm
(lC.1-3)
(b) Obtain the mean values of the velocity components
&,
-
u,, and
&.
The first of these is obtained from
r+m r+3o r+m
What can one conclude from the results?
J.
W.
Buddenberg and
C.
R.
Wilke,
Ind.
Eng.
Chem.
41,
1345-1347
(1949).
V.
Vand,
J.
Phys. Colloid Chem.,
52,277-299,300-314,
314-321 (1948).