Fluid and continuum, Physical properties of fluids, Rheology of fluids. Pressure-density height relationship, manometers, pressure on plane and curved surfaces, centre of pressure, buoyancy, stability of immersed and floating bodies.
Types of fluid flows: Steady and unsteady, uniform and non-uniform, laminar and turbulent flows, rotational and irrotational flows, compressible and incompressible flows, subsonic, sonic and supersonic flows, sub-critical, critical and supercritical flows one, two and three dimensional flows, streamlines, path lines, streak lines, stream tube, continuity equation for 1-D, 2-D and 3-D flows, circulation, stream function and velocity potential function.
Potential Flow: source, sink, doublet. Equation of motion along a streamline and its integration, Bernoulli’s equation and its applications- Pitot tube, orifice meter, venturimeter and bend meter, notches and weirs, momentum equation and its application to pipe bends. resistance to flow, Minor losses in pipe in series and parallel, power transmission through a pipe, siphon, water hammer,
Equation of motion for laminar flow through pipes, Stokes’ law,, Boundary layer thickness, boundary layer over a flat plate, displacement, momentum and energy thickness. Application of momentum equation. Laminar boundary layer, turbulent boundary layer, laminar sub-layer, separation and its control. Mixing length concept and velocity distribution in turbulent flow over smooth and rough surfaces.
Drag and lift, drag on a sphere, aerofoil, Similarity Laws; geometric, kinematics and dynamic similarity, undistorted and distorted model studies, Dimensional analysis, Buckingham’s Pi theorem, important dimensionless numbers and their significance. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
After completion of the course student will be able to:
This subject is on page 7 of the original AKTU PDF.
