FLUID MECHANICS-I Syllabus — Government College of Engineering and Te…
Full syllabus, topics and curated resources for FLUID MECHANICS-I (Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu).
Properties and statics of fluids, fluid kinematics and dynamics, dimensional analysis, pipe flow and impulse momentum principle
- Subject code: CEP6305
- University: Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Course: BE (2022 onwards)
- Branch: Civil
- Semester: 3
FLUID MECHANICS-I syllabus
Unit 1: Fluid
Unit 2: Properties of Fluids
- Mass density
- Specific weight
- Specific volume
- Viscosity
- bulk modulus ofelasticity
- Surface tension and capillarity
Unit 3: Fluid statics
- concept of fluid static preşsure
- absolute and gauge pressures
- pressure measurements by manometers
- forces on planes
- centre of pressure
- buoyancy and floatation
Unit 4: Fluid Kinematics
- Classification and types of flow
- velocity field and acceleration
- continuity equation
- stream line
- streak line
- path line
- stream function
- velocity potential function
- flow net
Unit 5: Fluid dynamics
- equations of motion
- Euler's equation along a streamline
- Bernoulli's equation
- applications - venturimeter
- orifice meter and Pitot tube
- flow over weir-notches
- flow through orifice and mouthpiece
Unit 6: Dimensional Analysis and Model studies
- Fundamental dimensions
- dimensional homogeneity
- Rayleigh's method
- Buckingham Pi-theorem
- dimensionless parameters
- similitudes and model studies
- distorted models
Unit 7: Flow through Pipes
- Reynold's experiment
- hydraulic and energy gradient
- Darcy- Weisbach's equation
- major and minor losses of flow in pipes
- pipes in series and in parallel
- branching of pipes
- pipe networks
- Hardy Cross method