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CE-501 RGPV B.Tech

Fluid Mechanics-I (FM)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for CE-501

Syllabus units

Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.

Unit 1 Review of Fluid Properties 19 topics
  • Engineering units of measurement
  • mass
  • density
  • specific weight
  • specific volume
  • specific gravity
  • surface tension
  • capillarity
  • viscosity
  • bulk modulus of elasticity
  • pressure and vapor pressure
  • Fluid Statics: Pressure at a point
  • pressure variation in static fluid
  • Absolute and gauge pressure
  • manometers
  • Forces on plane and curved surfaces (Problems on gravity dams and Tainter gates)
  • buoyant force
  • Stability of floating and submerged bodies
  • Relative equilibrium
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Kinematics of Flow 11 topics
  • Types of flow - ideal & real, steady & unsteady, uniform & non uniform, one, two and three dimensional flow
  • path lines, streamlines, stream tubes
  • continuity equation for one and three dimensional flow
  • rotational & irrotational flow
  • circulation
  • stagnation point
  • separation of flow
  • sources & sinks
  • velocity potential
  • stream function
  • flow nets – their utility & method of drawing flow nets
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Dynamics of Flow 9 topics
  • Euler’s equation of motion along a streamline and derivation of Bernoulli’s equation
  • application of Bernoulli’s equation
  • energy correction factor
  • linear momentum equation for steady flow
  • momentum correction factor
  • moment of momentum equation
  • forces on fixed and moving vanes and other applications
  • Fluid Measurements: Velocity measurement (Pitot tube, Prandtl tube, current meters etc.)
  • flow measurement (orifices, nozzles, mouth pieces, orifice meter, nozzle meter, venturimeter, weirs and notches)
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Laminar Flow 7 topics
  • Introduction to laminar flow
  • Reynolds experiment & Reynolds number
  • relation between shear & pressure gradient
  • laminar flow through circular pipes
  • laminar flow between parallel plates
  • laminar flow through porous media
  • Stokes law
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Dimensional Analysis and Turbulent Flow 6 topics
  • Dimensional Analysis and use of Buckingham‑π theorem
  • Introduction to Turbulent flow – Prandtl mixing length hypothesis
  • Flow over smooth & rough surface
  • Darcy–Weisbach resistance equation
  • variation of friction factor & Moody’s diagram
  • pipe flow problem
Unit 5 notes
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Exam insights

Counted from 5 past CE-501 papers.

Marks asked per paper, by unit

  • Unit 1 Review of Fluid Properties & Fluid Statics 29 marks
  • Unit 2 Kinematics of Flow 18 marks
  • Unit 3 Dynamics of Flow 28 marks
  • Unit 4 Laminar Flow 11 marks
  • Unit 5 Dimensional Analysis and Turbulent Flow 18 marks

Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.

Asked again and again

  1. Derive the laminar velocity distribution $u(y)$ between two fixed parallel plates, and hence obtain the shear stress distribution, volume flow rate, and mean velocity showing that $u_{mean} = \frac{2}{3}u_{max}$.

    Asked 3 times: 2025, 2023, 2020

  2. Explain with a neat sketch the working of a Pitot / pitot-static tube for measuring velocity of flow at a point in a pipe or channel.

    Asked 3 times: 2024, 2020, 2019

  3. Derive Euler's equation of motion along a streamline and hence obtain Bernoulli's equation for incompressible flow.

    Asked 3 times: 2023, 2020, 2019

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