Introduction, properties of fluids, viscosity, thermodynamic properties, Surface tension and 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, differential manometers, total pressure and center of pressure, vertical plane surface submerged in liquid, horizontal plane surface submerged in liquid, inclined plane surface submerged in liquid, curved surface submerged in liquid. Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, metacenter and metacentric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies. 7 Hours Fluid Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, Introduction, continuity equation, continuity equation in three dimensions (Cartesian co-ordinate system only), velocity and acceleration, velocity potential function and stream function. 7 Hours
Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Buckingham’s π theorem, Raleigh’s method, dimensionless numbers, similitude, types of similitudes.
Introduction, equations of motion, Euler’s equation of motion, Bernoulli’s equation from Euler’s equation, Bernoulli’s equation for real fluids.
Fluid flow measurements: Introduction, venturimeter, orifice meter, Pitot tube. Flow through pipes: Frictional loss in pipe flow, Darcy- Equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes, Chezy’s equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes, hydraulic gradient and total energy line.
Reynold’s number, critical Reynold’s number, Laminar flow through circular pipe-Hagen poiseulle’s equation, Laminar flow between parallel and stationery plates.
Flow past immersed bodies: Drag, Lift, expression for lift and drag, pressure drag and friction drag, boundary layer concept, displacement thickness, momentum thickness and energy thickness. Introduction to compressible flow: Velocity of sound in a fluid, Mach number, Propagation of pressure waves in a compressible fluid.