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Short Questions For Compressible Fluid Flow: by Jose Cherian, MED, FISAT

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Short Questions for Compressible Fluid Flow

1. Explain control volume and closed system.


2. Explain stagnation enthalpy, stagnation temperature and stagnation pressure.
3. Derive an expression for velocity of sound in air.
4. Discuss various regions of flow.(Velocity ellipse)
5. Explain four reference velocities.
6. Define Crocco Number.
7. Derive Bernoullies equation for compressible flow.
8. What do you mean by pressure coefficient? (Or Compressibility factor)
9. Derive an expression for effect of Mach Number on compressibility.
10. Explain Mach angle. What do you mean by zone of action and zone of silence.
11. Explain isentropic and adiabatic expansion process.
12. Derive the variation of area with respect to Mach number.
13. Discuss the shape of nozzle and diffusers for subsonic and super sonic flow.
14. Derive an expression for A/A* in terms of Mach Number.
15. Discuss Impulse Function or Wall Force Function.
16. Explain the variation of Nozzle pressure and mass flow rate with respect to Back pressure in
convergent nozzle.
17. Explain the variation of Nozzle pressure and mass flow rate with respect to Back pressure in
convergent –Divergent nozzle.
18. What do you mean by over expanded and under expanded Nozzle.
19. Explain Normal shocks.
20. Prove that shocks are not possible in subsonic flow.
21. How will you measure the speed of supersonic flow.
22. Compare Rankine and Isentropic relations.
23. State and prove Prandtle Meyer relations.
24. State and prove Rankine-Hugonoit equations.
25. How compression shocks are formed.
26. Prove that Rarefaction waves (Expansion waves)are not possible.
27. Explain (a) Strength of a shock wave(b) Weak shock or shocks of vanishing strength (c)Strong
shock.
28. Explain Rayleigh flow with examples.
29. What are the assumptions of Rayleigh flow.
30. Prove that Mach Number at the Maximum enthalpy and Maximum entropy point in Rayleigh line
are and unity.
31. Derive an expression for slope of the Rayleigh flow.
32. What do you mean by chocking in Rayleigh flow.
33. Prove that shock will lie at the intersection of Fanno line and Rayleigh line on h-s plane.
34. Explain Fanno line with examples.
35. What are the assumptions of Fanno line.
36. Prove that at the maximum entropy point in Fanno flow Mach number is unity.
37. Explain with a sketch supersonic wind tunnel.

By Jose Cherian, MED, FISAT


Short Questions for Compressible Fluid Flow

By Jose Cherian, MED, FISAT

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