10ME36B FLUID MECHANICS syllabus for ME


Part A
Unit-1 Properties of Fluids 6 hours

Introduction, Types of fluid, Properties of fluids, viscosity, thermodynamic properties, surface tension, capillarity, vapour pressure and cavitation

Unit-2 Fluid Statistics 7 hours

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.

Unit-3 Buoyancy and Fluid Kinematics 7 hours

Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, metacentre and metacentric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies, determination of Metacentric height experimentally and theoretically. Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, continuity equation in 2D and 3D (Cartesian Co-ordinates only), velocity and acceleration, velocity potential function and stream function.

Unit-4 Fluid Dynamics 6 hours

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.

Part B
Unit-5 Fluid Flow Measurements Dimensional Analysis 7 hours

Fluid Flow Measurements : Venturimeter, orificemeter, pitot-tube, vertical orifice, V-Notch and rectangular notches. Dimensional Analysis : Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Rayleigh’s method,Buckingham π theorem, dimensionless numbers, similitude, types of similitudes.

Unit-6 Flow through pipes 6 hours

Minor losses through pipes. Darey’s and Chezy’s equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes. HGL and TEL.

Unit-7 Laminar flow and viscous effects 6 hours

Reyonold’s number, critical Reynold’s number, laminar flow through circular pipe-Hagen Poiseille’s equation, laminar flow between parallel and stationary plates.

Unit-8 Flow past immersed bodies Introduction to compressible flow 7 hours

Flow past immersed bodies : Drag, Lift, expression for lift and drag, boundary layer concept, displacement, momentum and energy thickness. Introduction to compressible flow : Velocity of sound in a fluid, Mach number, Mach cone, propagation of pressure waves in a compressible fluid.

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