fog37 said:
well, I am assuming two different cylindrical pipes in which the fluid flows at two different speeds (due to different conditions upstream and downstream that we don't worry about)
I'm sorry, but that just isn't tightly enough constrained. With what you're specifying there, the static pressures in the two tubes could be almost anything and there is no way to know without specifying something, which one will be higher. E.G.:
But It could well be a Venturi tube in which case the pipes diameters are different.
That helps. That satisfies
@FactChecker's constraint that the total pressures be equal. In that case, Pc<Pa.
I think it is fair to say that the stagnation pressure ##P_B > P_D## since the fluid in the 2nd figure will impact the red surface at a higher speed.
It's not. You're mixing-up stagnation (total) pressure and dynamic pressure. The dynamic pressure is higher and per your constraint (a Venturi tube), the total/stagnation pressures are equal.
And I still think that along the streamline, the pressure ##P_C## would be less than the pressure ##P_A## but I am not sure, conceptually, why the liquid molecules would exert a lesser pressure if the pass by the horizontal surface faster. Do they have less time to impact?
No. Again, static pressure in and of itself is not a function of speed. In a Venturi you
make the static pressure drop by using it to accelerate the fluid.
But if the go faster it also means more liquid molecules would end up impacting with the horizontal red surface.
This isn't true. Think about running or driving in the rain. A horizontal surface can't gather more rain because the total amount of rain reaching the ground is fixed. But a vertical surface "sweeps up" rain as it travels. That's what happens here with the two different pressure port orientations.
Then I wonder if the liquid thermodynamic pressure at that same point would be higher, if we stopped the liquid and the liquid parcels were not flowing to the right of the red surface...
I don't know what "thermodynamic pressure" is, but we're using a low-speed; incompressible, constant density, constant temperature flow assumption here.