Fluid Mechanics
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Fluid Mechanics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Mechanics (subject code 3140110) as prescribed for Aero · Semester 4 divides the course into 3 units, covering 46 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3140110)Unit 1 Fluids and Their Properties
- Fluid classifications
- hypothesis of continuum
- shear stress in a moving fluid
- molecular structure of material
- surface tension
- capillary effect
- vapor pressure
- compressibility and the bulk modulus
- Pascal’s law of pressure at a point
- variation of pressure vertically in a fluid under gravity
- equality of pressure at the same level in a static fluid
- general equation for the variation of pressure due to gravity from a point to point in a static fluid
- pressure and head
- hydrostatic paradox
Unit 2 Fluid Statics and Buoyancy
- Fluid static
- action of fluid pressure on surface
- resultant force and center of pressure on a plane surface under uniform pressure and surface immersed in a liquid
- pressure diagrams
- forces on a curved surface due to hydrostatic pressure
- equilibrium of floating bodies
- stability of a submerged body and floating bodies
- determination of the metacentric height
- determination of the position of the metacenter relative to the center of buoyancy
Unit 3 Kinematics of flow and Potential Flow
- Classification of fluid flows: Laminar and Turbulent flow
- Steady and Unsteady flow
- Uniform and Non-uniform flow
- Compressible and Incompressible flow
- Ideal and Real flow
- Rotational and Irrotational flow, One, two and three-dimensional flow
- Frames of reference
- analyzing fluid flow
- motion of a fluid particle
- acceleration of a fluid particle
- discharge and mean velocity
- continuity of flow
- continuity equations for 2-D and 3-D flow in Cartesian coordinates of system
- Path lines and Streak lines
- Circulation and Vorticity
- Stream function and Potential function
- relation between Stream function and Potential function
- theory of notches and weirs Introduction
- Important cases of potential flow
- Uniform flow
- Source flow
- Sink flow
- Subject Code: 3140110 w.e.f
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