Finite Control Volume – Deformable CV Application

 

It's time for your influenza vaccination.  The nurse decides to give you an injection using a syringe 

as shown in the figure below.  The inside diameter of the syringe is 5 cm and the inside diameter of

the needle is 0.4 cm.  Suppose the nurse advances the plunger at a rate of 10 cm/sec.  Calculate the

velocity of the vaccine exiting the needle.

                 

                       

 

Strategy:  Construct the control surface and control volume as shown above.  Then apply conservation

of mass with a deformable control volume as given below.

              

                                    ∂/∂t  ∫ ρ dV  +  ∫ ρ V . n dS  =  0      note:  dV  =  element of volume

                                       cv             cs

 

       ∂/∂t  ∫ ρ dV  =   ρ dV/dt =  ˗ ρ V1 A1  =  ˗ ρ V1 [π (D1)2 ] /4

 

and   ∫ ρ V . n dS  =    ρ V2 . n2  A2  =   ρ V2  A2  =  ρ V2[ π (D2)2 ] /4

       cs

 

Note:  V1  refers to the speed of the plunger coincident with the left side of the

deformable control volume

 

where   V1  =   10 cm/sec,    D1  =  5 cm,  D2  =  0.4 cm, 

 

So    ˗ ρ V1 [π (D1)2 ] /4   +  ρ V2[ π (D2)2 ] /4  =  0

 

    V2  =  V1  (  D1 / D2 )2  =  125 cm/sec      (result)

 


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