ME-404 RGPV B.Tech
FLUID MECHANICS (FM)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
7 papers, latest Jun 2026
- ME-404 paper, Jun 2026
- ME-404 paper, Jun 2025
- ME-404 paper, Dec 2024
- ME-404 paper, Jun 2024
- ME-404 paper, Nov 2023
- ME-404 paper, Jun 2023
Syllabus, notes and important questions for ME-404
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Introduction to Fluid Mechanics 6 topics
- Introduction, fluid and the continuum
- Fluid properties, surface tension, bulk modulus and thermodynamic properties
- Newton’s laws of viscosity and its coefficients
- Newtonian and non‑Newtonian fluids
- Hydrostatics and buoyancy
- Metacentric height and stability of floating bodies
Unit 2 Fluid Kinematics 7 topics
- Lagrangian and Eulerian method
- Description of fluid flow, stream line, path line and streak line
- Types of flow and types of motion
- Local and convective acceleration
- Continuity equation
- Potential flow, circulation, velocity potential, stream function
- Laplace equation and flow nets
Unit 3 Fluid Dynamics 7 topics
- System and control volume analysis
- Reynolds transport theorem
- Euler’s equation
- Bernoulli’s equation
- Momentum and moment of momentum equations and their applications
- Forces on immersed bodies, lift and drag
- Streamlined and bluff bodies, flow around circular cylinder and aerofoils
Unit 4 Flow Through Pipes 7 topics
- Reynolds number, laminar and turbulent flow
- Viscous flow through parallel plates and pipes
- Navier‑Stokes equation
- Pressure gradient
- Head loss in turbulent flow (Darcy’s equation)
- Friction factor, minor losses
- Hydraulic and energy gradient, pipe networks
Unit 5 Boundary Layer and Compressible Flow 7 topics
- Introduction to boundary layer theory
- Boundary layer parameters, Von Kármán momentum equation
- Laminar and turbulent boundary conditions
- Boundary layer separation
- Compressible flow, Mach number, isentropic flow
- Stagnation properties, normal and oblique shocks
- Fanno and Rayleigh lines, flow through nozzles
Unit 6 == END OF UNITS==
The syllabus lists no separate topics for this unit.
Exam insights
Counted from 7 past ME-404 papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Introduction and Fluid Properties 28 marks
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Unit 2 Fluid Kinematics 26 marks
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Unit 3 Fluid Dynamics 21 marks
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Unit 4 Flow Through Pipes 15 marks
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Unit 5 Boundary Layer Theory and Compressible Flow 22 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
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Describe the different types of fluid flow and distinguish between steady vs unsteady, uniform vs non-uniform, compressible vs incompressible, rotational vs irrotational, and laminar vs turbulent flow.
Asked 4 times: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2019
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Determine the total hydrostatic pressure force and location of centre of pressure on a plane surface immersed vertically/inclined in a liquid.
Asked 4 times: 2023, 2022, 2019
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Define and explain path line, streamline, streak line and stream tube.
Asked 4 times: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019