18ME43: Fluid Mechanics ME Syllabus for BE 4th Sem 2018 Scheme VTU

Fluid Mechanics detailed Syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (ME), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, 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 4th Sem ME Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU 4th Sem ME Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for fluid mechanics is as follows.

Course Learning Objectives:

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Module-1

Basics: Introduction, Properties of fluids-mass density, weight density, specific volume, specific gravity, viscosity, surface tension, capillarity, vapour pressure, compressibility and bulk modulus. Concept of continuum, types of fluids etc., pressure at a point in the static mass of fluid, variation of pressure. Pascal’s law, absolute, gauge, atmospheric and vacuum pressures; pressure measurement by simple, differential manometers and mechanical gauges. Fluid Statics: Total pressure and centre of pressure for horizontal plane, vertical plane surface and inclined plane surface submerged in static fluid.

Module-2

Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, meta center and meta centric height its application. Fluid Kinematics: Velocity of fluid particle, types of fluid flow, description of flow, continuity equation, Coordinate free form, acceleration of fluid particle, rotational & irrotational flow, Laplace’s equation in velocity potential and Poisson’s equation in stream function, flow net.

Module-3

Module-4

Flow over bodies: Development of boundary layer, Prandtl”s boundary layer equations, Blasius solution, integral momentum equation, drag on a flat plate, boundary layer separation and its control, streamlined and bluff bodies -flow around circular bodies and aero foils, calculation of lift and drag. Dimensional analysis: Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Rayleigh’s method, Buckingham Pi-theorem, dimensionless numbers, similitude, types of similitude.

Module-5

Compressible Flows: Introduction, thermodynamic relations of perfect gases, internal energy and enthalpy, speed of sound, pressure field due to a moving source, basic Equations for one-dimensional flow, stagnation and sonic properties, normal and oblique shocks. Introduction to CFD: Necessity, limitations, philosophy behind CFD, applications.

Course Outcomes:

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.
Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.

Text Books:

A Text Book of Fluid Mechanis And Hydraulic Machines Dr R.K Bansal Laxmi Publishers
Fluid Mechanics F M White McGraw Hill Publications Eighth edition. 2016
Fluid Mechanics (SI Units) Yunus A. Cengel John M.Cimbala TataMcGraw Hill 3rd Ed.,2014.

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For detail Syllabus of all other subjects of BE Mechanical Engineering, 2018 scheme do visit Mechanical Engineering 4th Sem Syllabus for 2018 scheme.

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