How to Calculate Water Jet Distance in a Tank?

[Parkie]

Good Evening all

Ok confesions first I am an engineer not a physicist. However i have a problem i hope you can help with.

How do you calculated the distance water will travel from a jet on the horazontal through water itself.

I know i have a jet oriface of 4mm, i have 53.33 litres per minute passing through this jet at a pressure of 148.01barg. hence i have a velocity of 70.731m/s^2. So how how do i calculate the distance the jet of water will go? the jet is in a tank of water so its not like a jet of water through air.

Can anyone help?

Cheers

Parkie

 

[Naty1]

I can't answer your question specifically, but it's clear you are interested in the viscosity differences between air and water...obviously water has more resistance to flow than air...

check here for ideas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscous

I also checked "nozzles" but did not find much of interest in wikipedia.


also some aspects of ideal and real fluids:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_engineering#Behavior_of_Real_Fluids

 

[Parkie]

cheers dude, if we say its pass through water at 50 deg then we know that has a kinematic viscosity of 0.553 m^2/s x 10^-6