This blog was an assignment for my chemical engineering fluid mechanics course at Auburn University. The posts are about naturally occurring fluid mechanics phenomena that I noticed on a daily basis.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Fire Hydrant Flood in Ross Parking Lot
Today when I was walking to class the fire department was purging a fire hydrant. This produced a flow of water that ran from the aerospace building into the drain in the parking lot of Ross. I was mindful of the properties and behaviors that the fluid was demonstrating; I did not just see a flood in Ross parking lot. I was mindful that the flow had a velocity gradient and profile. I was also mindful that even though the flow seemed to be very fast the water actually had zero velocity next to the concrete due to no slip conditions.
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