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ME-404 · FLUID MECHANICS/Official Syllabus

FLUID MECHANICS (ME-404) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Introduction and Fluid Properties

  • Introduction
  • fluid and the continuum
  • fluid properties
  • surface tension
  • bulk modulus and thermodynamic properties
  • Newton’s laws of viscosity and it’s coefficients
  • Newtonian and non Newtonian fluids
  • hydrostatics and buoyancy
  • meta center and metacentric height
  • stability of floating bodies
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Unit 2

Fluid Kinematics

  • Fluid kinematics
  • Langragian and Eularian mrthod
  • description of fluid flow
  • stream line, path line and streak line
  • types of flow and types of motion
  • local and connective acceleration
  • continuity equation
  • potential flow
  • circulation
  • velocity potential
  • stream function
  • laplace equation
  • flow nets
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Unit 3

Fluid Dynamics

  • Fluid dynamics
  • system and control volume
  • Reynold transport theorem
  • Euler’s equation
  • Bernoulli’s equation
  • momentum and moment of momentum equation
  • their applications
  • forces on immersed bodies
  • lift and drag
  • streamlined and bluff bodies
  • flow around circular cylinder and aerofoils
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Unit 4

Flow Through Pipes

  • Flow through pipes
  • Reynold number
  • laminar and turbulent flow
  • viscous flow through parallel plates and pipes
  • Navier Stoke’s equation
  • pressure gradient
  • head loss in turbulent flow ( Darcey’s equation)
  • friction factor
  • minor losses
  • hydraulic and energy gradient
  • pipe networks
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Unit 5

Boundary Layer Theory and Compressible Flow

  • Introduction to boundary layer theory
  • description of boundary layer
  • boundary layer parameters
  • Von Karman momentum equation
  • laminar and turbulent boundary conditions
  • boundary layer separation
  • compressible flow
  • Mach number
  • isentropic flow
  • stagnation properties
  • normal and oblique shocks
  • Fanno and Reyleigh lines
  • flow through nozzles

Reference Books

  • Mechanics of fluid — Massy B.S. — Routledge Publication
  • Fluid Mechanics — Shames — Tata McGraw Hills
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