Question

Write the differences between laminas/streamline flow and turbulent flow.

Answer 1

1. Laminar Flow

• Layered flow with one layer of fluid sliding smoothly over the other.
• Reynold’* No. < 1000
• Observed usually in flow through porous materials.

2. Turbulent

• Haphazard flow with rapid and continuous mixing of fluid resulting in momentum transfer.
• Reynold’* No. > 2000
• Pipeline flow, river flow, etc.