Fluid Mechanics detailed Syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU AUTO 4th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU AUTO 4th Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for fluid mechanics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Module 1
Properties of fluids: Introduction, Properties of fluids, viscosity, thermodynamic properties, surface tension, capillarity, vapor pressure and cavitation. Fluid Statics: Fluid pressure at a point, Pascal’s law, pressure variation in a static fluid, absolute, gauge, atmospheric and vacuum pressures, simple manometers and differential manometers. Total pressure and center of pressure on submerged plane surfaces; horizontal, vertical and inclined plane surfaces, curved surface submerged in liquid.
Module 2
Buoyancy: Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, meta centre and meta-centric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies, determination of Meta-centric height experimentally and theoretically. Fluid Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, continuity equation in 2D and 3D (Cartesian Co-ordinates only), velocity and acceleration, velocity potential function and stream function.
Module 3
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Module 4
Dimensional analysis: Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Rayleigh’s method, Buckingham n theorem, dimensionless numbers, similitude, types of similtude. Flow through pipes: Minor losses through pipes. Darey’s and Chezy’s equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes. HGL and TEL.
Module 5
Laminar flow and viscous effects: Reyonold’s number, critical Reynold’s number, laminar flow through circular pipe-Hagen Poiseille’s equation, laminar flow between parallel and stationary plates. Flow past immersed bodies: Drag, Lift, expression for lift and drag, boundary layer concept, displacement, momentum and energy thickness. Introduction to compressible flow: Velocity of sound in a fluid, Mach number, Mach cone, propagation of pressure waves in a compressible fluid.
Course Outcomes:
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Question paper pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks. Each full question will be for 20 marks. There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
Text Books:
- Fluid Mechanics Pijush. K. Kundu ELSEVIER 3rd Ed. 2005.
- Fluid Mechanics Bansal, R. K. Lakshmi Publications 2004.
Reference Books:
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