BHARATHIYAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

COURSE PLAN-2014
SUBJECT CODE / SUBJECT: MET32 MECHANICS OF FLUID
Section: B

YEAR/SEM: II-YEAR / III-SEMESTER

OBJECTIVES

To make the students understand the properties of fluid and the concepts of fluid statics, fluid
kinematics and kinematics and fluid dynamics.
To enable them to determine the static forces on surfaces and analyse the stability of
submerged and floating bodies.
To teach the fundamental laws mass, momentum and energy equations governing the fluid
flow.
To make them to analyze various types of flow such as laminar and turbulent flow.
To enable the students to determine the friction and other energy loss for various pipes
geometries.
To enable the students to perform dimensional analysis and identify important parameters and
understand the use of similitude and dimensional analysis.
To teach the students the concept of boundary layer flow.
To teach the students the principle of viscosity, pressure and flow measurement.
UNIT

LECTURE TOPICS

Introduction to fluid and properties of fluid

Viscosity of fluid, Newtons law of viscosity and types of
fluid
Fluid statics, fluid pressure, Pascals law and hydrostatic
law
Relations between pressure, Pressure measurement
Simple manometer and differential manometer
Simple manometer and differential manometer problems
Hydrostatic force on plane, (horizontal, vertical, inclined)
Hydrostatic force on plane curved surface and problems on
hydrostastic force on plane3
Buoyancy, metacenter, metacentric height and stability of
submerged and floating bodies

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Fluid paramatics, steam line and path line, velocity and

acceleration
Types of fluid flow, flow rate and continuity equations
Differential equations of continuity and types of motion
Velocity potential and steam function, flow net, its
characteristics and uses
Fluid dynamics, Eulers equations of motion along a steam
line
Bernoullis equation and its applications
Venturimeter, orifice-meter and pitot-tube
Problems on venturimeter, orifice-meter and pitot-tube
Momentum equations, Navier stokes equations and
problems
Reynolds experiment, laminar viscos flow
Hagen poiseuille equation, viscosity measurement, falling
sphere method
Rotating cylinder method, redwood viscometer
Flow losses in pipes, major loss and darcy weisbach
equation
Cherzys formula, and problems on major loss
Minor energy losses in sudden enlargement and
contraction
Minor energy losses in bends and elbows
Compound pipes and equivalent pipe
Problems on minor losses
Dimensional analysis, fundamental and derived quantities
Dimensional homogeneity and methods of dimensional
analysis
Rayleigh method
Buckingham theorem
Buckingham theorem problems
Model analysis, similitude dimensionless numbers
Model laws, Reynolds, Froude
Euler, weber and mach model laws
Problems on model laws
Laminar and turbulent boundary layers
Boundary layer growth over a flat plate
Boundary layer thickness, displacement
Boundary layer momentum and energy thickness
Blasius solution, drag force on a flat plate due to boundary
layer
Local coefficient of drag, average coefficient of drag
Problems on laminar and turbulent boundary layers
Separation of boundary layer and its control
Problems on boundary layer displacement

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Fluid mechanics and hydraulic

machines
Hydraulics and fluid mechanics
including hydraulic machines
Fluid mechanics and fluid power
engineering

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AUTHOR

PUBLISHER

Dr.R.K.Banasal

Lakshmi publisher

P.N.Modi, S.M.
Seth
D.S.Kumar

Standard publishers
distributors
SK Kataria & sons

ASSIGNMENTS
Problems on Hydrostatic force on plane, (horizontal, vertical, inclined)
Problems on Venturimeter, orifice-meter and pitot-tube
Problems on Flow losses in pipes, major loss and darcy weisbach equation

FACULTY
(M.THIRUNAVUKKARASU)

HOD/MECH