A plate of length 4m in the direction of the flow and of width 2m is pulled at a speed of 108 km/h in water at 15^oC find the power needed against the shear force for one side of the plate .

b- oil with dynamic viscosity=0.1 N-s/m² and density=863 kg/m³ flows between 2 parallel plates 2.5 mm apart and inclined 30 degrees to the horizontal at a rate of 300 cm³/s per one meter of width. Calculate the pressure gradient in the direction of flow.

A pump curve provided by a manufacturer is given by h= 20[1 − (Q/100)²] where h is the head provided by the pump in meters and Q is the discharge in liters per minute. The system curve for a pumping application is

h= 5+0.002Q² (Q in liters per minute).Find the Operating point (Q) for

• one pump
• two pumps connected in series
• two pumps connected in parallel

. Air enters the compressor of a gas turbine power plant operating on Brayton cycle at 14.5 psia and 540° R. The pressure ratio across the turbine and compressor is same, which is equal to 6. Assume that the compressor work as 0.4 times the turbine work. Take K=1.4 a) Draw the T-S diagram of the cycle. [2] b) Calculate the maximum temperature in the cycle. [3] c) Calculate the cycle efficiency

Write a two page report on the recent space travel by NASA and SpaceX. Explain any two electronic subsystems involved.

An ideal Rankine cycle operates between 2700 psia and 1050° F at throttle and 4 psia in the condenser. One high pressure open type feed-water heater and one low pressure open type feed water heater are placed at 700 psia and 190 psia respectively. a) Draw the schematic flow and T-S diagrams of the cycle [3] b) Calculate mass flow rate in the both heaters. [2] c) Calculate heat rejected. [2] d) Calculate cycle efficiency. [4] e) Calculate work ratio. [1] Assumption: 1 lbm/h flow at turbine throttle and no flow pressure drops.

Rankine cycle operates on boiler pressure 15 MPa and condenser pressure of 30 kPa. Superheated steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 450°C. The high-pressure turbine expands the steam and enters the re-heater at 2.5 MPa. The steam is reheated until temperature reaches 450°C before being expanded in low-pressure turbine to condenser pressure of 30 kPa. Assume the isentropic efficiency of the low-pressure and high-pressure turbines are 94% and 89% respectively, and pump is working isentropically. Neglect the change in kinetic energy, potential energy and pressure drops in boiler and condenser. The net power produced by the plant is 10 MW. Determine the followings: (a) Net heat supplied by boiler (in kJ/kg). [10 Marks] (b) Net heat rejected in condenser (in kJ/kg). [6 Marks] (c) Thermal efficiency of the cycle. [2 Marks] (d) Mass flow rate of the cycle (in kg/s). [1 Mark] (e) Thermal efficiency of the cycle if both turbines replaced with isentropic turbine. [6 Marks] (f) T-s diagram of the cycle with respect to the saturation lines. [5 Marks]

A rigid and closed steel tank with a volume of 86 dm ³   contains a mixture of saturated vapor and liquid at a quality and pressure of 0.9 and 20 bar respectively. Heat is removed from the system until it reaches 147 ° C.

• What is the volume of the saturated liquid phase at the end state?

Determine the adiabatic flame temperature when liquid octane, C8H18 at 25C is burned with 300% theoretical air at 25C in a steady flow process.

As a Mechanical engineer, to prevent building collapse from happen, Based on Engineering statics what factor should you take into account in designing the structure of the mall and if ever this incident(building collapse) happen how would you as an engineer react and solve this issue.

which is the reason why the equation is reached: dU = FcosΘds to describe the work done by a force.

Include descriptive schemes.

Write when the work is positive, negative or null depending on the angle between the force component and the displacement.

What is the unit of measurement of labor (U) in the international system and in the imperial system?

Let's consider a four-cylinder engine with phase angles of 0o,90o,270,o180o. Commute mass for each cylinder 2kg, crank length 50 mm, connecting rod 250mm, distance between cylinder axes 150 mm. The crankshaft rotates at a constant speed of 800 rpm. According to the given, find the shaking moment acting on the motor block due to imbalance.

Consider a turbine; working substance is air.

cp=1.0 kJ/kgK ,    k=1.4

v1=0.03 ,    v2=0.08 m3/kg ,     p1=2.5 bar; state 1 is enterance, state 2 is the exit of the turbine. The turbine is not ideal (isentropic); the air goes through a state change according to pv^n=constant ,      n=1.6 Compute the ideal and actual specific works and turbine efficiency.

pvn=constant ,      n=1.6

Consider a 2nd order system with m=30kg, k = 5000N/m, c = 387N-s/m. Generate the BODE plot using MATLAB or Excel to find the maxima. If you do not have Excel, you can use google sheets. For MATLAB users these functions may be useful: (logspace, loglog)