Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineeringcoretheory
FLUID MECHANICS
MIE 2123
Syllabus
- 01Properties of fluids – definition of various hydrodynamic parameters, fluid continuum, different types of fluids
- 02Fluid statics – Pressure and its measurement, hydrostatic pressure forces on flat and curved surfaces, buoyancy and its stability
- 03Kinematics of fluid flow – methods of fluid flow description, velocity and acceleration vectors, dimensions of fluid flow; path line, stream line, streak line and stream tube; rotational and irrotational flow; velocity potential function and stream function; translation, rotation and deformation of a fluid element
- 04Dynamics of fluid flow – continuity equation, Euler's equation, Reynold's transport theorem, energy of a flowing fluid - Euler's equation of motion along a stream line, Bernoulli's equation; Impulse momentum equation; Navier-Stokes equation
- 05Dimensional analysis - Rayleigh's method and Buckingham's Pi-theorem, similitude, types of similarity, significance of dimensionless numbers
- 06Internal fluid Flow - Couette flow, Hagen Poiseuille's flow, Reynolds experiment, Darcy equation, friction factor, pipe roughness, Moody's Chart, Major loss and Minor losses in pipe flow, Siphon, Venturimeter, Orifice meter and Pitot tube
- 07External fluid flow – boundary layer theory, displacement thickness, Von-Karman momentum integral equation; flow past submerged bodies, streamlined body, Bluff body
References
- Cengel Yunus A., and Cimbala John M., Fluid Mechanics- Fundamentals & Applications, 4th ed., McGraw Hill publications, 2018.
- Frank M. White, Fluid Mechanics, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2011.
- Som S. K., Gautam Biswas, and Chakraborty S., Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines, 3rd ed., Tata McGraw Hill publications, 2012.
- Bruce R. Munson, Donald F. Young, and Teodore H. Okiishi, Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics, Wiley, 2009.
- Kumar K. L., Engineering Fluid Mechanics, S. Chand Publishing, New Delhi, 2016.
- Modi P. N., and Seth S. M., Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics Including Hydraulics Machines, 21st ed., Standard Book House, 2018.
- Bansal R. K., Fluid mechanics and Hydraulic machines, 1oth ed., Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd. New Delhi, 2019.
Credits Structure
2Lecture
1Tutorial
0Practical
3Total