FLUID MECHANICS Syllabus — Government College of Engineering and Tech…
Full syllabus, topics and curated resources for FLUID MECHANICS (Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu).
Fluid properties, fluid statics, fluid dynamics, basic hydrodynamics, pipe flow, boundary layer theory, dimensional analysis and Moody's chart
- Subject code: MET5301
- University: Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Course: BE (2022 onwards)
- Branch: ME
- Semester: 3
FLUID MECHANICS syllabus
Unit 1: Basics
- Introduction, Fluids and their properties
- Fluids-shear stress in a moving fluid-difference between solids and fluids
- viscosity - Newtonian and NonNewtonian fluids
- viscosity in liquids and gases
- density-surface tension - capillarity
Unit 2: Fluid Statics
- Total pressure and centre of pressure for horizontal plane, vertical plane surface and inclined plane surface submerged in static fluid
- Buoyancy, centre of buoyancy, metacentre and metacentric height
- its application in shipping, stability of floating bodies
Unit 3: Fluid Dynamics
- Eulerian & lagrangian approaches
- classification of fluid flow as steady and unsteady flow, uniform and non-uniform flow, laminar and turbulent flow
- pathline, stream line, streak line and stream tube
- one-, two- and three-dimensional flow
- velocity and acceleration in steady and unsteady flow
Unit 4: Basic hydrodynamics
- Ideal fluids - equation of continuity, stream function
- Euler's equation for unsteady flow in three dimensions
- one dimensional low along a stream of velocity, Bernoulli's equation and its applications
- pitot and pitot-static tubes
- venturi meter, flow nozzles
Unit 5: Basic equations of Fluid Mechanies
- equation of continuity, momentum equation and energy equation for a control volume
- adoption of these equation to one dimensional flow
- velocity and momentum correlation
- application of momentum equation to straight and bent, uniform and reducing conduits
- path of trajectory of a free liquid jet
Unit 6: Steady flow of incompressible fluids in Pipes
- Laminar and Turbulent flows, critical Reynold's number
- hydraulic radius
- general equation for friction
- friction in non-circular pipes
- Darcy Weisbach equation
- development of boundary layer in pipe's flow, smooth and round pipes
- Minor losses in pipes
Unit 7: Boundary Layer Theory
- Introduction
- momentum integral equation
- displacement, momentum and energy thickness
- separation of boundary layer
- Control of flow separation
Unit 8: Dimensional Analysis
- Buckingham Pie theorem
- Flow similarity & model studies
- friction & brusler drier
- Aerodynamic lift
- Navier stokes equation
- Torriclies theorem