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Course content |
- Introduction :Scope, definition of fluid as continuum, fluid properties.(2hr)Fluid Statics: Pressure at a point,basic equation for pressure field, pressure variation(fluid at rest):standard atmosphere, Measurement of pressure manometer,Hydrostatics force on a plane and curve surface, Buoyancy, flotation and stability, pressure variation in a fluid with rigid body motion linear motion, rigid body rotation(4hr)Elementary Fluid Dynamics: Statics, stagnation pressure, Bernoulli Equation assumptions(4hr)Fluid Kinematics The velocity filed : Eulerian and Largrangian flow descriptions, steady and deformation, Acceleration field: material derivative, unsteady and convective effects. Control volume and system representation : Reynolds’ Transport Theorem, physical interpretation, steady, unsteady effects, moving control volume, potential function(6Hr)Integral approach Conservation of mass derivation of continuity, fixed, non-deforming control volume, moving non-deforming control volume, deforming control volume. Conservation of momentum: linear momentum and moment of momentum equation and their application., comparison of energy equation with Bernoulli’s equation(6hr)Differential approach : linear motion and angular motion with deformation, Conservation of mass: differential form of continuity equation, stream function, Conservation of linear momentum, Inviscid flows, Irrotational flow(6hr)Viscous flow : Stress relationships,NS Equations, Simple solutions for viscous flows(4hr)Dimensional analysis Buckingham’s II-theorem,Dimensionless groups & their importance ( 3hr)Viscous Flow in Pipes : General characteristics of pipe flow, fully developed laminar and turbulent flow, turbulent shear stress, turbulent velocity profile, Pipe Flow rate measurement.(4hr)
Boundary layer: Boundary layer characteristics boundary layer structure and thickness on a plate, Blasius boundary layer, momentum integral boundary layer equation for a flat plate(4hr)
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Texts/References |
- Yunus A. Cengel, John M. Cimbala, Fluid Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill Education,2011
- F.M.White Fluid Mechanics, Seventh Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Education,2011,
- Kundu,Pijush K., and Ira M.Cohen.Fluid Mechanic, Elsevier,2001
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