19ME3403-FLUID MECHANICS

Offering Branches ME
Course category: Program Core Credits 4
Lecture-Tutorial-
Course Type: Theory 3-1-0
Practical:
Continuous
30
Evaluation:
Prerequisites 19ME3301 -Engineering Mechanics Semester End
70
Evaluation:
Total Marks: 100
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to
CO1 Describe the concepts of fluid properties, pressure
L1
measurement by manometers.
CO2 Estimate the forces acting on submerged body in a static fluid. L2
CO3 Apply conservation laws to solve fluid flow problems in
L3
engineering applications.
CO4 Analyze the various flow measuring devices and estimate the L3
force exerted by the jet on vanes.
CO5 Apply Rayleigh’s method, and Buckingham Pi theorem to L3
arrange given variables into dimensionless groups.
Course Content
PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS
Properties of fluids- Density, specific weight, specific volume,
specific gravity, Viscosity-Dynamic viscosity, Kinematic
Viscosity-Cohesion, Adhesion, surface tension, capillarity and
vapor pressure, compressibility and elasticity.
UNIT-1 CO1
MEASUREMENT OF PRESSURE:
Pascal’s law, Manometers–Simple Manometers-Piezometer, U-
tube manometer, Single column manometers, Differential
manometers-U-Tube differential manometers and inverted U-Tube
differential manometers.
UNIT-2 HYDROSTATIC FORCES ON SURFACES:
Total pressure and center of pressure on horizontal plane surface,
Vertical plane surface, inclined plane surface, Practical
applications of total pressure and center of pressure-Dams, Gates
and Tanks.
BUOYANCY AND FLOATING:
Buoyancy-Archimedes principle- center of buoyancy-metacenter CO2
and metacentric height-stability of submerged and floating bodies-
determination of metacentric height.
FLUID KINEMATICS:
Classification of flows-steady and unsteady, uniform and non-
uniform, laminar and turbulent, rotational and irrational, viscous
and inviscid, continuity equation, Description of fluid flow,
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 Stream line, path line, streak lines and stream tube
UNIT-3 FLUID DYNAMICS:
Euler’s and Bernoulli’s equations for flow along a stream line,
momentum equation and its application on force on pipe bend.
CLOSED CONDUIT FLOW: CO3
Reynolds’s experiment- Darcy Weisbach equation- Minor losses
in pipes- pipes in series and pipes in parallel- total energy line-
hydraulic gradient line.
UNIT-4 MEASUREMENT OF FLOW:
Pitot tube, Venturimeter and orifice meter –flow over rectangular,
triangular, trapezoidal and stepped notches.
IMPACT OF JETS:
CO4
Hydrodynamic force of jets on stationary and moving flat, inclined
and curved vanes, jet striking centrally and at tip – velocity
triangles at inlet and outlet – expressions for work done and
efficiency - angular momentum principle
UNIT-5 DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS:
Fundamental and derived dimensions, Rayleigh method,
Buckingham theorem, dimensionless groups, application of
CO5
dimensional groups, model testing and similitude, types of
similarity - geometric, kinematic and dynamic, model testing
methods.
Learning Resources
Text books: 1.Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics including hydraulic machines, by
P.N.Modi and S.M.Seth, Standarard book house, 2000, New Delhi.
2.K.L.Kumar / Engineering Fluid Mechanics / S chand Publications.
Reference 1.Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, by R.K.Bansal, Laxmi
books publications (P) Ltd. 2011, New Delhi.
2.Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics and fluid machines, by S Ramamrutham,
Dhanapat rai publishing company,New Delhi
3.Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, by R.K.Rajput, S.Chand limited
publications, 2008, New Delhi.
4.Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, by Sukumar Pati, Mc Graw Hill
Education Private Limited, 2014, New Delhi.
5.Fluid Flow Machines by N.S.Govinda Rao, Tata Mc Graw Hill publishing
company Ltd.
6.Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines by K.R.Arora, Standard
Publishers Distributors
e- Resources & 1. https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112/105/112105171/
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19ME3403-FLUID MECHANICS
MICRO SYLLABUS-PVP19

UNIT I
PROPERTIES OF FLUIDS

 Density,
 Specific weight,
 Specific volume,
 Specific gravity,
 Dynamic viscosity,
 Kinematic Viscosity-
 Cohesion, Adhesion, surface tension, capillarity and
 Vapor pressure,
 Compressibility and elasticity.

MEASUREMENT OF PRESSURE:

Pascal’s law,
Manometers
Simple Manometers
 Piezometer,
 U-tube manometer,
 Single column manometers,
Differential manometers
 U-Tube differential manometers and
 Inverted U-Tube differential manometers.

UNIT II
HYDROSTATIC FORCES ON SURFACES:

Total pressure and center of pressure on

 horizontal plane surface,
 Vertical plane surface,
 Inclined plane surface,
Practical applications of total pressure and center of pressure-
 Dams,
 Gates and
 Tanks.
BUOYANCY AND FLOATING:

Buoyancy
Archimedes principle
Center of buoyancy
metacenter and metacentric height
Stability of submerged and floating bodies
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 Determination of metacentric height.
FLUID KINEMATICS:

Classification of flows (Explanation only)

 Steady and unsteady,
 Uniform and non-uniform,
 Laminar and turbulent,
 Rotational and irrational,
 Viscous and in viscid,
Continuity equation,
Description of fluid flow (Explanation only),
 Stream line,
 Path line,
 Streak lines and
 Stream tube

UNIT – III
FLUID DYNAMICS:

Euler’s and Bernoulli’s equations for flow along a stream line,

Momentum equation and its application on force on pipe bend.
CLOSED CONDUIT FLOW:

Reynolds’s experiment-
Darcy Weisbach equation-
Minor losses in pipes-
Pipes in series and pipes in parallel-
Total energy line-hydraulic gradient line.
UNIT – IV
MEASUREMENT OF FLOW:

 Pitot tube,
 Venturimeter and
 Orifice meter
 Rectangular notch
 Triangular notch
 Trapezoidal notch and
 Stepped notches.
IMPACT OF JETS:

Hydrodynamic force of jets on stationary and moving

 Flat,
 Inclined and
 Curved vanes-velocity– expressions for work done and efficiency
Angular momentum principle
UNIT – V
Dimensional analysis:

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Fundamental and derived dimensions, Rayleigh method, Buckingham theorem, dimensionless
groups, application of dimensional groups, model testing and similitude, types of similarity -
geometric, kinematic and dynamic, model testing methods.