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    This document outlines a course in fluid mechanics that covers key topics over 7 units. It includes 52 total lecture hours and is divided into two parts. Part A covers properties of fluids, fluid statics, fluid kinematics, and dimensional analysis over 6 units and 26 hours. Part B addresses fluid dynamics, fluid flow measurements, laminar flow and viscous effects, and flow past immersed bodies over 5 units and 26 hours. The exam is 3 hours and includes long-form questions from each chapter, with students required to answer 5 of 8 total questions choosing at least 2 from each part of the course.

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    Fluid Mechanics

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    This document outlines a course in fluid mechanics that covers key topics over 7 units. It includes 52 total lecture hours and is divided into two parts. Part A covers properties of fluids, fluid statics, fluid kinematics, and dimensional analysis over 6 units and 26 hours. Part B addresses fluid dynamics, fluid flow measurements, laminar flow and viscous effects, and flow past immersed bodies over 5 units and 26 hours. The exam is 3 hours and includes long-form questions from each chapter, with students required to answer 5 of 8 total questions choosing at least 2 from each part of the course.

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    This document outlines a course in fluid mechanics that covers key topics over 7 units. It includes 52 total lecture hours and is divided into two parts. Part A covers properties of fluids, fluid statics, fluid kinematics, and dimensional analysis over 6 units and 26 hours. Part B addresses fluid dynamics, fluid flow measurements, laminar flow and viscous effects, and flow past immersed bodies over 5 units and 26 hours. The exam is 3 hours and includes long-form questions from each chapter, with students required to answer 5 of 8 total questions choosing at least 2 from each part of the course.

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    Fluid Mechanics

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    This document outlines a course in fluid mechanics that covers key topics over 7 units. It includes 52 total lecture hours and is divided into two parts. Part A covers properties of fluids, fluid statics, fluid kinematics, and dimensional analysis over 6 units and 26 hours. Part B addresses fluid dynamics, fluid flow measurements, laminar flow and viscous effects, and flow past immersed bodies over 5 units and 26 hours. The exam is 3 hours and includes long-form questions from each chapter, with students required to answer 5 of 8 total questions choosing at least 2 from each part of the course.

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    FLUID MECHANICS

    : 06 ME 36B/
    Sub Code

    IA Marks

    : 25

    06 ME 46B

    Hrs/week

    : 04

    Exam Hours

    : 03

    Total Lecture Hrs

    : 52

    Exam Marks

    : 100

    PART A

    UNIT 1:
    Properties of Fluids: Introduction, properties of fluids, viscosity, thermodynamic properties, Surface tension and Capillarity, Vapour pressure and Cavitation.
    6 Hours

    UNIT 2:
    Fluid Statics: Fluid pressure at a point, Pascals law, pressure variation in a static fluid, Absolute, gauge, atmospheric and vacuum pressures, simple manometers, differential
    manometers, total pressure and center of pressure, vertical plane surface submerged in liquid, horizontal plane surface submerged in liquid, inclined plane surface submerged in
    liquid, curved surface submerged in liquid. Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, metacenter and metacentric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies.
    7 Hours

    Fluid Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, Introduction, continuity equation, continuity equation in three dimensions (Cartesian co-ordinate system only), velocity and acceleration,
    velocity potential function and stream function.
    7 Hours

    UNIT 3:
    Dimensional Analysis: Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Buckinghams theorem, Raleighs method, dimensionless
    numbers, similitude, types of similitudes.

    6 Hours

    Computer Aided Machine Drawing/ Fluid Mechanics

    Page 4
    6 Hours

    PART B

    UNIT 4:
    Fluid Dynamics: Introduction, equations of motion, Eulers equation of motion, Bernoullis equation from Eulers equation, Bernoullis equation for real fluids.
    6 Hours

    UNIT 5:
    Fluid flow measurements: Introduction, venturimeter, orifice meter, Pitot tube.
    Flow through pipes: Frictional loss in pipe flow, Darcy- Equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes, Chezys equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes, hydraulic
    gradient and total energy line.
    7 Hours

    UNIT 6:
    Laminar flow and viscous effects: Reynolds number, critical Reynolds number, Laminar flow through circular pipe-Hagen poiseulles equation, Laminar flow between parallel
    and stationery plates.
    6 Hours

    UNIT 7:
    Flow past immersed bodies: Drag, Lift, expression for lift and drag, pressure drag and friction drag, boundary layer concept, displacement thickness, momentum thickness and
    energy thickness.
    Introduction to compressible flow: Velocity of sound in a fluid, Mach number, Propagation of pressure waves in a compressible fluid.
    7 Hours

    Text Books:

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    1.

    Fluid Mechanics by Oijush K.Kundu, IRAM COCHEN, EL SEVIER 3 Ed. 2005.

    2.

    Fluid Mechanics by Dr. Bansal.R.K, Lakshmi Publications, 2004.

    3.

    Fluid Mechanics and hydraulics, Dr. Jagadishlal: Metropolitan Book Co-Ltd., 1997.

    4.

    Fluid Mechanics (SI Units), Yunus A. Cingel John M. Oimbala. Tata MaGrawHill,2006.

    Reference books:

    1.

    Fluid Mechanics, Fundamental & applications, by Yunus A, Cenegel, John M,Cimbala, Tata MacGraw Hill, 2006.

    2.

    Fluid Mechanics by John F.Douglas, Janul and M.Gasiosek and john A. Swaffield, Pearson Education Asia, 5 ed., 2006

    3.

    Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Engineering, Kumar.D.S, Kataria and Sons.,2004.

    4.

    Fluid Mechanics R.K.Hegde, Niranjana Murthy Spana Book House, 2005.

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    Scheme of examination:

    Scheme of examination:
    One Question to be set from each chapter. Students have to answer any FIVE full questions out of EIGHT questions, choosing at least 2 questions from part A and 2 questions
    from part B.

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