Properties of Fluids: Introduction, Properties of fluids, viscosity, thermodynamic properties, surface tension, capillarity, vapour pressure and cavitation Fluid Statics : Fluid pressure at a point, Pascal’s law, pressure variation in a static fluid, absolute, gauge, atmospheric and vacuum pressures, simple manometers and differential manometers. Total pressure and center of pressure on submerged plane surfaces; horizontal, vertical and inclined plane surfaces, curved surface submerged in liquid.
Buoyancy and Fluid Kinematics: Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, metacentre and metacentric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies, determination of Metacentric height theoretically. Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, continuity equation in 2D and 3D (Cartesian Co-ordinates only), velocity and acceleration
Fluid Dynamics: Introduction equation of motion, Euler’s equation of motion, Bernoulli’s equation from first principles and also from Euler’s equation, limitations of Bernoulli’s equation.
Fluid Flow Measurements :Venturimeter, orificemeter, pitot-tube, vertical orifice, VNotch and rectangular notches.
Flow through pipes : Minor losses through pipes. Darey’s and Chezy’s equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes. HGL andTEL( no problems). Flow past immersed bodies : Drag, Lift, expression for lift and drag, boundary layer concept, displacement, momentum and energy thickness.
Dimensional Analysis : Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Rayleigh’s method, Buckingham π theorem, dimensionless numbers, similitude(theory and no problems) Introduction to compressible flow : Velocity of sound in a fluid, Mach number, Mach cone, propagation of pressure waves in a compressible fluid on plates.