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Saltwater Tank Design Specifications
I’m looking for some guidance on designing a large seawater tank. My initial concept was a rectangular plastic (PP or PE) tank, roughly 6×4×4 m with a water height of around 3 m.
However, I’ve been ...
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Simulation of quasi-static fluids
I'm doing a school project asking to investigate the wirtz pump (a thin tube coiled to a vertical spiral shape, a part of which underwater, and the pump turns, water enters the spiral and move towards ...
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Is my basement flooding because the city floods a neighboring field to make an ice rink?
I bought a house about a year ago that was built in 1952, and the original house has French drains and a sump pump which keeps the basement dry. There is an extension, however, which was added at some ...
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Could someone help me with this physics problem about water pressure
I am designing a rainwater collection system. Rainwater is initially collected in an open-top barrel equipped with filters and sensors. This barrel is connected to a pillow tank, a flexible water ...
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How do I calculate magnitude of shear force per unit of length when all I'm given is the diameter?
I had a chemical engineering homework problem where I had to come up with a velocity profile for methanol flowing through a cylindrical tube, where viscosity and average velocity were given, but the ...
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How to make a constant flow rate of water from a tank with a faucet at the bottom side?
Consider I have water tank as shown by the picture. By normal condition, the flow rate when the tank is full is higher than when the tank almost finish, and till it finally finish it will stop (in ...
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Fluid Mechanics about Hydrostatic Pressure
The rectangular gate will open authomatically, when the depth of water becomes
very large. What is the minimum value of d that will cause the gate to just open?
The width of the gate is 2 m.
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Would connecting a small hydraulic pump to a larger hydraulic motor result in force multiplication?
In a hydrostatic transmission system, hydraulic pumps drive hydraulic motors (basically a reverse pump).
If you were use a smaller hydraulic pump as an input and a bigger hydraulic motor as the ...
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Are there hydraulic torque converters that are specifically built to work like reduction gearboxes?
As far as I understood from this video, there are torque converters and fluid couplers (a hydraulic clutch), but certain types of torque converters kind of work by performing the two functions at ...
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shaft connected double water wheel to lift water back in closed loop
This is meant for mechanical closed system for hydroponics. Two wheels connected by same shaft so the wheel going down lifts the water back with the other interconnected wheel to a slight incline. I ...
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How to make a weather buoy more stable?
I'm designing a weather buoy as a school project. I have read that the metacentric height is a good measurement for buoy stability and is relatively easy to calculate.
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Do axial displacement experiments under hydrostatic load scale linearly to any size?
In J. D. Stachiw's book Acrylic plastic viewports for ocean engineering applications [PDF] on page 337 it includes a Figure 7.12 [2] showing the results of applying hydrostatic loads to an acrylic ...
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Submerged fraction buoancy force
How can I calculate the height of the submerged part of a partly filled bucket?
(The liquid both inside and outside is freshwater).
The bucket is trapezoidal such that the volume of the submerged can ...
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Does stress have to be isotropic in fluid under static equilibrium?
Does the Cauchy stress tensor under static equilibrium in a fluid HAVE to be isotropic? If so why? I would like to be pointed to rigorous mathematical resources that show this. What physical ...
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Could a hybrid system of mechanical levers and hydrostatic/hydraulic cylinders be able to lift 200+ kg with the force of an arm?
I don't know much about levers and hydrostatic/hydraulics myself, so I hope I don't make too many misconceptions.
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Hypothetically, if you had a 40km+ long indestructible lever on a ...
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