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CE-604 (A) · Fluid Mech. – II/Official Syllabus

Fluid Mech. – II (CE-604 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Turbulent flow

  • Laminar and turbulent boundary layers and laminar sublayer
  • hydrodynamically smooth and rough boundaries
  • velocity distribution in turbulent flow
  • resistance of smooth and artificially roughened pipes, commercial pipes, aging of pipes
  • Pipe flow problems : Losses due to sudden expansion and contraction, losses in pipe fittings and valves
  • concepts of equivalent length, hydraulic and energy gradient lines, siphon, pipes in series, pipes in parallel, branching of pipes
  • Pipe Network : Water Hammer (only quick closure case)
  • transmission of power
  • Hardy Cross Method
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Unit 2

Uniform flow in open channels

  • Channel geometry and elements of channel section
  • velocity distribution, energy in open channel flow, specific energy
  • types of flow, critical flow and its computations
  • uniform flow and its computations, Chezy's and Manning's formulae, determination of normal depth and velocity
  • Normal and critical slopes
  • Economical sections
  • Saint Vegnet equation
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Unit 3

Non uniform flow in open channels

  • Basic assumptions and dynamic equations of gradually varied flow
  • characteristics analysis and computations of flow profiles
  • rapidly varied flow hydraulic jump in rectangular channels and its basic characteristics
  • surges in open channels & channel flow routing
  • venturi flume
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Unit 4

Forces on immersed bodies

  • Types of drag
  • drag on a sphere, a flat plate, a cylinder and an aerofoil
  • development of lift, lifting vanes
  • magnus effect
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Unit 5

Fluid Machines: Turbines

  • Turbines : Classifications, definitions, similarity laws, specific speed and unit quantities
  • Pelton turbine-their construction and settings, speed regulation, dimensions of various elements, Action of jet, torque, power and efficiency for ideal case, characteristic curves
  • Reaction turbines: construction & settings, draft tube theory, runaway speed, simple theory of design and characteristic curves, cavitation
  • Pumps: Centrifugal pumps : Various types and their important components, manometric head, total head, net positive suction head, specific speed, shut off head, energy losses, cavitation, principle of working and characteristic curves
  • Reciprocating pumps: Principle of working, Coefficient of discharge, slip, single acting and double acting pump, Manometric head, Acceleration head

Reference Books

  • Fluid Mechanics — Modi, Seth — Standard Book house, Delhi
  • Open Channel Flow — Rangaraju — Tata Mc Graw-Hill Publishing Comp. Ltd., New Delhi
  • Fluid Mechanics — A.K. Jain — Khanna Publishers, Delhi
  • Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics & Hydraulic Machanics — K.R. Arora — Standard Publishers Distributors
  • Hyd. of open channels — Bakhmetiff B.A. — McGraw Hill, New York
  • Open Channel Hyd. — Chow V.T. — McGraw Hill, New York
  • Engineering Hydraulics — H. Rouse
  • Centrifugal & Axial Flow Pump — Stempanoff A.J. — New York
  • Relevant IS codes
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