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    This laboratory manual provides instructions for using a Hele-Shaw apparatus to investigate and demonstrate potential fluid flows. The document describes the objective, basic characteristics, specifications, theory of operation, areas of usage, test procedures and example results for the Hele-Shaw equipment. Potential flows can be modeled and streamlines visualized by cutting shapes from rubber sheets and placing them between the parallel plates of the apparatus while dye and water flow is induced.

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    This laboratory manual provides instructions for using a Hele-Shaw apparatus to investigate and demonstrate potential fluid flows. The document describes the objective, basic characteristics, specifications, theory of operation, areas of usage, test procedures and example results for the Hele-Shaw equipment. Potential flows can be modeled and streamlines visualized by cutting shapes from rubber sheets and placing them between the parallel plates of the apparatus while dye and water flow is induced.

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    This laboratory manual provides instructions for using a Hele-Shaw apparatus to investigate and demonstrate potential fluid flows. The document describes the objective, basic characteristics, specifications, theory of operation, areas of usage, test procedures and example results for the Hele-Shaw equipment. Potential flows can be modeled and streamlines visualized by cutting shapes from rubber sheets and placing them between the parallel plates of the apparatus while dye and water flow is induced.

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    This laboratory manual provides instructions for using a Hele-Shaw apparatus to investigate and demonstrate potential fluid flows. The document describes the objective, basic characteristics, specifications, theory of operation, areas of usage, test procedures and example results for the Hele-Shaw equipment. Potential flows can be modeled and streamlines visualized by cutting shapes from rubber sheets and placing them between the parallel plates of the apparatus while dye and water flow is induced.

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    LABORATORY MANUAL

    HELE-SHAW APPARATUS H9
    TEAM EX-AERO
    SUBMITTED BY;
    MT POYRAZ
    NYAZ ENOL
    KEREM GNAYDIN
    ALPAY SANCAR
    1. OBJECT
    In this labwork the main object is to investigate the experimental equipment hele-shaw
    apparatus h9. Basically, this equipment is used for the flow visualization and demonstrating
    potential flow in fluid dynamics.

    2. BASIC CHARACTERISTICS

    2.2 Operating conditions


    This equipment is designed for the laboratory environment. The storage temperature range for the
    transport is between -25 C degrees and +55 C degrees. The operating temperature range for the
    laboratory environment is between +5 C degrees and +40 C degrees.

    2.3 Physical Specifications


    Net dimensions : 720 mm x 520 mm x 470 mm
    Packed dimensions and weight : 0.176 m^3 and 18 kg
    Channel working section : Nominally 300 mm x 250 mm , depth 0.75 mm
    Rubber sheet (from which to cut models): Approximately 0.4 m^2 , 0.76 mm thick.
    Ancillaries (included)
    o All necessary pipe clips connectors pipes an tubing
    o Dye bottle, clamp and dye
    o Water jet vacuum pump
    o Retort rod and clamp
    o Adaptor
    o Spare tap
    o Transfusion clips

    3. THEORY
    Potential flow seems like the wrong way to analyze fluid flows. But if you accept the non-viscous fluid
    assumption, it is possible to use potential flow to solve the problems of velocity and pressure
    distribution.

    Prandtl showed that when a body is immersed in a fluid flow, the flow has two parts.

    A free stream
    A boundary layer

    Potential flow never separates from a surface, as separation only happens in a viscous fluid. However the
    streamlines in the Hele-shaw apparatus will show regions of adverse gradient. Changes to surface
    contour can be made and the flow pattern optimized. If the problem is where the pressure decreases in
    the same direction as the flow, the streamline pattern for a real fluid is similar to that in potential flow.

    Potential flow methods can show the problems of water seepage through the solids and flow problems
    in other branches of engineering. For example a circular cylinder in a uniform stream produces a unique
    streamline pattern. This pattern could show;

    The flow of electric current through a bus bar in which there is a bolt hole , or
    The heat flow through a conducting medium in which there is an insulator or circular section.

    Also, this apparatus can simulate any process satisfying Laplaces equation in two dimensions.

    4. AREA OF USAGE
    Sources and sinks in a uniform flow
    Doublet in a uniform stream
    Flow around a cylinder and an airfoil , flow through an orifice and a diffuser
    Flow through a heat exchanger
    The momentum equation
    Laminar flow relationship for flow between two parallel plates
    Mean velocity equations
    Potential flow relationships

    5. TEST PROCEDURE

    Figure 1 Flow Directions


    Figure 2 Components of Hele-Shaw

    First, to incorporate models into the free stream of the apparatus and study the effect on
    streamlines , cut the shapes you need from rubber sheet.
    Sandwich the model between the two plates of the apparatus.
    Start the water flow
    Open a dye valve just enough to produce easily visible streamlines
    Use valves to allow water to flow from a source or drain into a sink point or various combination
    of flow or sink points. The vacuum pump strengthens the sink points.
    6. RESULTS

    Figure 3 Flow related to Disk

    Figure 4 Flow related to Disk - Position 1


    Figure 5 Shapes related to Disk Position 2

    Figure 6 Flow related to Diffuser

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