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Determine the terminal settling velocity of a particle having a density of 2540 kg/m3 and a diameter of 10 mm in water having a temperature of 10C. You may assume that the particle is a perfect sphere (shape factor = 1). What would be the settling velocity for the same particle if the water temperature decreased to 5C?
We apply the formula of terminal velocity in fluids:
where:
= sphere density
= density of medium
g = gravity
= medium viscosity
We notice that we need viscosity of water at 5C and 10C and that those are not given in the problem so let´s look for on the internet.
= .001307 kg/ (s * m) at 10C
= .001518 kg/ (s * m) at 5C
If we apply the equation we can see that the terminal velocity at 5C is = 55.3 m/s
terminal velocity at 10C is = 64.24 m / s