Hydraulic Fundamentals Essay

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Assignment 1 Hydraulic Fundamentals ‘Basic Theory The word "hydraulics" originates from the Greek word ὑδραυλικός (hydraulikos) which in turn originates from ὕδωρ (hydor, Greek for water) and αὐλός (aulos, meaning pipe). In applied science and engineering dealing with the mechanical properties of liquids, there is a topic called Hydraulics. Fluid mechanics provides the theoretical foundation for hydraulics, which focuses on the engineering uses of fluid properties. Hydraulics is used for the generation, control, and transmission of power by the use of pressurized liquids in fluid power. Hydraulic topics range through most science and engineering disciplines, and cover concepts such as pipe flow, dam design, fluidics and fluid control circuitry, pumps, turbines, hydropower, computational fluid dynamics, flow measurement, river channel behavior and erosion. Pascal Law Pascal's law or the Principle of transmission of fluid-pressure in the physical sciences states that "pressure exerted anywhere in a confined incompressible fluid is transmitted equally in all directions throughout the fluid such that the pressure ratio (initial difference) remains the same." The law was established by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician. [pic] where ΔP is the hydrostatic pressure (given in pascals in the SI system), or due to the weight of the fluid, the difference in pressure at two points within a fluid column; ρ is the fluid density (in kilograms per cubic meter in the SI system); g is acceleration due to gravity (normally using the sea level acceleration due to Earth's gravity in metres per second squared); Δh is the height of fluid above the point of measurement, or the difference in elevation between the two points within the fluid column (in metres in SI). The change in pressure between two elevations is due to the weight of the

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