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AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM

AES321 COMPRESSIBLE FLUID FLOW
QUIZ 1

Max marks: 10
Date: 06-08-2015

Time: 15 minutes

1. Based on your understanding, explain how continuum approach is related to mean

free path.
[2 marks]
2. Write expression relating speed of sound and compressibility. What is the speed of
sound in incompressible medium?
[2 marks]
3. Explain the terms in equation given below:
[Write your answers next to equation]

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[2 marks]

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4. Explain what happens to entropy during a process [imagine ice is melting when
exposed to higher temperature- explain why in terms of entropy]. What is isentropic
process? Write down the relation between pressure, density and temperature in
isentropic process.
[2 marks]
5. A stream of air is drawn from a reservoir through an irreversible adiabatic process
into a second reservoir in which the pressure is half of that in the first. Calculate the
entropy difference between the two reservoirs at the beginning of the process.
[Hint: Velocity of fluid inside reservoir is zero- and in adiabatic process stagnation
temperature is same throughout the system]
[2 marks]
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Your answers here [ except for question #3]: