Bluff body

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• “When a body is immersed in a fluid either wholly or partially, it is buoyed or lifted up by a force which is equal to the weight of fluid displaced by the body”. This principle was enunciated by
• The resultant upward pressure of a fluid on a floating body is equal to the wirght of the fluid displaced by the body. This is known as
• The tendency for an immersed body to be lifted up in the fluid, due to an upward force opposite to the action of gravity is known as
• When a body is immersed in a fluid, partially or completely, the force of buoyancy is equal to
• The point of application of the force of buoyancy on the body is known as
• A floating body is in stable equilibrium when
• If a body does not return to its original position from the slightly displaced angular position and heels farther away, when given a small angular displacement; such an equilibrium is called
• Boundary layer thickness (?) is the distance from the surface of the solid body in the direction perpendicular to flow, where the velocity of fluid is equal to
• Submerged weight of a body is
• A stationary body immersed in a river has a maximum pressure of 69 Kpa exerted on it at a distance of 5.4 m below the free surface. What velocity of river could be expected ?