Fluid Mechanics detail syllabus for Automobile Engineering (Auto), 2017 scheme is taken from VTU official website and presented for VTU students. The course code (17AU42), and for exam duration, Teaching Hr/week, Practical Hr/week, Total Marks, internal marks, theory marks, duration and credits do visit complete sem subjects post given below.
For all other auto 4th sem syllabus for be 2017 scheme vtu you can visit Auto 4th Sem syllabus for BE 2017 Scheme VTU Subjects. The detail syllabus for fluid mechanics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, students will be able to
- To define fluid properties, describe Pascal’s law, Hydrostatic law.
- To calculate pressure given point and difference in pressure between sections of pipe, Buoyancy and Stability of floating objects.
- To apply Bernoulli’s principle to solve fluid flow problems.
- To make dimensional analysis of fluid mechanics problems.
- To analyze various forces acting on submerged bodies.
Module 1
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Module 2
Buoyancy: Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, meta centre and metacentric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies, determination of Metacentric 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
Fluid dynamics:
Introduction, equation of motion, Euler’s equation of motion, Bernoulli’s equation from first principles and also from Euler’s equation, limitations of Bernoulli’s equation.
Fluid Flow Measurements:
Venturimeter, orifice meter, pitot-tube, vertical orifice, V-Notch and rectangular notches.
Module 4
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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:
After completion of above course, student will be able to:
- Define fluid properties and distinguish between types of fluids.
- Describe Pascal’s law, Hydrostatic law & their application to solve engineering static fluid problems.
- Explain the concepts of Buoyancy and stability of floating objects.
- Explain the types of flows, application of continuity equations.
- Explain the forces acting when fluid is under motion & application of Bernoulli’s equation for solving flow problems.
- Explain the different methods of measurement of flows.
- Use dimensional analysis methods for fluid mechanics problems.
- Estimate the various types of losses in pipes.
- Explain the concepts of laminar flow & viscous flow through the pipe and plates.
- Analyze various forces acting on submerged bodies in engineering flow problems.
Text Books:
- Fluid Mechanics – Pijush. K. Kundu, Ira M. Cohen, ELSEVIER, 3rd Ed. 2005.
- Fluid Mechanics – Dr. Bansal, R. K., Lakshmi Publications, 2004.
Reference Books:
- Fluid Mechanics and hydraulics- Dr. Jagadishlal, Metropolitan Book Co-Ltd., 1997.
- Fluid Mechanics (SI Units) – Yunus A. Cengel John M.Cimbala, TMH, 2006.
- Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power Engineering- Kumar. D. S., Kataria and Sons., 2004.
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