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CaspianTiger
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Hi, i am doing some course work where i have to determine the flow rate of an air jet at 10D from the nozzle.
Basically I have a graph of velocity against the vertical reading from a manometer and i need to determine volume flow rate by finding the area under this curve. Unfuortunetly i do not understand this technique i am led to believe the trapezoidal or simpsons rule can be used to do this.
The volume flow rate is Q=VA
and the integration used i believe is A=2 [tex]pi[/tex] [tex]\int[/tex] V rdr
I have looked in my books but this only leads to the confusion. The book suggests i split up all the parts into rectangles and then do the integration for each rectangle then sum them, however using the technique in the book i think all the results will be the same. I do not udnerstand the explanation of the trapezoidal rule and i am not sure how i would apply simpsons rule to this.
This may appear simple but it has me very confused.
Thanks for the help.
Basically I have a graph of velocity against the vertical reading from a manometer and i need to determine volume flow rate by finding the area under this curve. Unfuortunetly i do not understand this technique i am led to believe the trapezoidal or simpsons rule can be used to do this.
The volume flow rate is Q=VA
and the integration used i believe is A=2 [tex]pi[/tex] [tex]\int[/tex] V rdr
I have looked in my books but this only leads to the confusion. The book suggests i split up all the parts into rectangles and then do the integration for each rectangle then sum them, however using the technique in the book i think all the results will be the same. I do not udnerstand the explanation of the trapezoidal rule and i am not sure how i would apply simpsons rule to this.
This may appear simple but it has me very confused.
Thanks for the help.