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Open pipe and relation between pressure and flow rate

Engineering Asked by user1529408 on December 10, 2020

If a pipe (of unknown/arbitrary length) with cross section area $A$ and with a continuous supply of a simple fluid with a known pressure $p$ at the opening to the atmosphere, which has a pressure of $p_a$, what would be the rate of flow out of the pipe?

I have looked but not found an answer anywhere, but apologies if this seems trivial or seems to be a duplicate of another question.

2 Answers

Poiseuille's Law,

$$ Flow=dfrac{πcdot r^4 cdot (P-Po) }{ 8cdot ηcdot L} cm^3/s $$ And in your case assuming you have a Pipe with the area $Acm^2$,

$$ Flow= Adfrac{r^2 cdot (P-Po) }{ 8cdot ηcdot L} cm^3/s $$

-P = pressure at the entrance, Bar

-P0 = atmosphere pressure, Bar

-eta = viscosity at dyne second/cm2 for water at 20c it is 0.01

-L = length cm.

Answered by kamran on December 10, 2020

If you don't know the length L, then you'll have to disregard head losses. Then you can simply apply the Bernoulli equation:

$$ p + rho *(c^2/2) + rho*g*z = constant $$

$p$ is the pressure, $rho$ the density, $c$ the speed, $g$ the gravity, $z$ the height.

Apply this equation in the entry and in the exit and clear $c^2$. After that, multiply $c_2$ by $A_2$ and you'll get the flow rate.

Sorry for the wrong formatting, I still don't know how to format equations properly.

Answered by user20096 on December 10, 2020

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