Fluid flow & mixture

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Is there an assumption that the fluid from bucket 2 mixes thoroughly with bucket 1 before passing through the first hose onto the ground?

Yes. Anything else would be impossibly complicated.

Originally Posted by billbo911

With the density of the two fluids being the same, the flow through hose #2 could not be the same as through hose #1, unless acted upon by an external force other than gravity, such as a pump. Again, assuming the buckets are on the same level.

Sure. Pump it.

Good points, all. I tried to leave the original design intentionally vague so that people would follow the spirit of it, not try to lawyer the details (where have we heard that before?), important as the details may be. My question lies not so much in the mechanical process of the fluid transfer as it does in the resulting mixture. While I do realize the process does affect the mixture, for the sake of this, assume these effects are minimized. I also did not put any of my thoughts in the original post as I did not wish them to cloud any opinions or discussion.

Please, proceed.