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Chapter8:ViscousIncompressibleFlows
Lecture26:

HagenPoiseuilleFlow

Consider fully developed laminar flow through a straight tube of circular crosssection as in
Fig.26.3.Rotationalsymmetryisconsideredtomaketheflowtwodimensionalaxisymmetric.
Letustakezaxisastheaxisofthetubealongwhichallthefluidparticlestravel,i.e.

Fig26.3HagenPoiseuilleflowthroughapipe

Now,fromcontinuityequation,weobtain

[Forrotationalsymmetry, ]

whichmeans

Invoking inthe

NavierStokesequations,weobtain

(inthezdirection) (26.3)

Forsteadyflow,thegoverningequationbecomes

(26.4)

Theboundaryconditionsare(i)Atr=0, isfiniteand(ii)r=R, yields

Equation(26.4)canbewrittenas

or,

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or,

or,

or,

Atr=0, isfinitewhichmeansAshouldbeequaltozeroandatr=R, =0yields

(26.5)

Thisshowsthattheaxialvelocityprofileinafullydevelopedlaminarpipeflowishaving
parabolicvariationalongr.
Atr=0,assuch,

(26.6a)

Theaveragevelocityinthechannel,

or,

(26.6b)

or (26.6c)

Now,thedischarge(Q)throughapipeisgivenby

(26.7)

or, [FromEq.26.6b]

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(26.8)
or

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