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Air flows through a converging adiabatic duct with no loss. The temperature at the inlet is 400 K. What is the ratio of the outlet area to the inlet area?
Heat is now added until the quality is 52 percent. Determine the minimum entropy change of the thermal energy reservoir supplying this heat.
The mean solar flux at the Earth's surface is ~2.00 J*cm^-2*min^-1. In a nonfocusing solar collector, the temperature can reach a value of 85.0 C. A heat engine is operated using the collector as t
If the polymer has a shear modulus of 400 MPa and the tube has outside diameter 50 mm and wall thickness 3 mm, what torque should be applied during the assembly? (Gstainlesssteel = 80 GPa).
If the vessel had a yield strength in compression in equal to that of 4340-HR steel (901 x 10^6Pa) and a safety factor of 2 was employed, what would the wall thickness need to be to withstand the pr
Determine: The turbine power output The fraction of the turbine output used to drive the compressor. The mass flow rate of air into the compressor. The volumetric flow rate into the compressor.
At what pressure(give type: tension, compression, or shear) would this cylinder fail( due to the stress exceeding the yield stress of the material) if the high pressure were inside the cylinder?
If the surroundings are treated as a thermal reservoir, what is the total change in entropy of the universe due to this cooling process?
The pressure inside the cylinders of a diesel engine reaches a maximum pressure of 100atm during combustion. The diameter of the cylinder is about 5 inches.
For air flowing in a converging-diverging nozzle, the pressure and temperature at the inlet are 14.7 psia and 70°F. At some location in the diverging portion of the nozzle, the pressure is 1.37
What is the pressure recorded by a gage that measures the difference between the stagnation pressure and the static pressure?
If the internal pressure equals that of the free stream static pressure, what is the total force on the plane of glass 1m x 3m located in this regin?
The top surface of the passenger car moving at a velocity of 70 km/h is 2.8 m wide and 8 m long. The top surface is absorbing solar radiation at a rate of 200 W/m2 and the temperature of the ambient
With the system being tested at a constant angular velocity of 300 revolutions per minute it was experimentally found that a peak acceleration of 1.7g's at an angle of 71.9 degrees (relative to a r
A house has a winter heating requirement of 30 kJ/s and a summer cooling requirement of 60 kJ/s. Consider a heat-pump installation to maintain the house temperature at 20 °C in the winter an 25
Plot the final bend radius as a function of initial bend radius in bending for (a) 5052-O aluminum; (b)5052-H34 aluminum; (c) C24000 brass.
Gears are used to increase and decrease rotational speed and according to this relation v = rω we can say that gears can increase and decrease kinetic energy.
A new building to be located in a cold climate is being designed with a basement that has an L=200 mm thick wall. Inner and outer basement wall temperatures are t=20 c and t=0 c respectively.
A liquid R-134-a bottle has an internal volume of. 0.001 m3. Initially it contains 0.4 kg of R-134a (saturated mixture) at 26°C. A valve is opened and R-134-a vapor only (no liquid) is allowed t
Determine the specific flow work (eflow), total specific flow energy (emass, ignore ke and pe)) of the air in the supply line, and the final temperature in the tank.
Steam enters a nozzle operating at steady state at 20 bar, temperature 280C, with a velocity of 80 m/s. The exit pressure and temperature are 7 bar and temperature 180C, respectively.
Calculate the mass of different cementites that form upon cooling from the liquidus temperature to the room temperature of a 5.5 wt% Fe-C alloy (white cast iron) of 100g.
The specifications for an automobile fuel pump state that it should pump 1 L of gasoline in 40 seconds with a suction pressure of 150 mm of mercury vacuum and a discharge pressure of 30 kPa.
The electrical power input to the pump transporting the menthol must be greater than the amount you calculated in part (a). What would you guess becomes of the additional energy? (There are several
Saturated water vapor at 200 kPa is expanded slowly and without friction (i.e., internally reversibly). What is the change in specific entropy for the water, in kJ/kg*K? What is the work done (per uni