Unit 1 Fluid static and its application

12 lecture hours

• Properties of fluids
• Pressure concept
• Hydrostatic equilibrium
• decanters like continuous gravity
• centrifugal etc
• Fluid Flow Phenomena: Velocity fluid
• Velocity gradient and rate of shear
• Newtonian and Non Newtonian fluids
• Viscosity and momentum flux
• Reynolds number and its significance
• laminar and turbulent flow
• Laminar and Turbulent flow in boundary layers
• boundary layer formation in straight tubes
• boundary separation and wake formation

Unit 2 Basic equations of Fluid Flow

10 lecture hours

• Mass velocity
• average velocity
• potential flow
• stream tubes
• macroscopic momentum balance
• momentum correction factor
• Equation of continuity
• Bernoulli's equation
• corrections for fluid friction
• pump work in Bernoulli’s equations
• angular momentum equations

Unit 3 Flow of incompressible fluids

12 lecture hours

• in Conduits and Thin Layers: Flow of incompressible fluids in Conduits and Thin Layers in pipes
• relation between skin friction and wall shear
• friction factor laminar flow in pipes
• kinetic energy correction factor and momentum correction factor for laminar flow of Newtonian fluids
• Hagen-Poiseuille equation
• effect of roughness
• friction factor chart
• friction factor inflow through channels of non-circular cross section
• equivalent diameter
• hydraulic radius
• friction from changes in velocity or direction
• flow through sudden enlargement of cross section
• flow through sudden contraction of cross section
• effect of fittings and valves
• form friction losses in Bernoulli’s equations
• separation of boundary layers in diverging channel

Unit 4 Flow of Compressible fluids

• Mach number
• continuity equation total energy balance equation
• velocity of sound
• Introduction of isentropic expansion
• adiabatic frictional flow
• isothermal frictional flow
• velocity in nozzles
• Flow past immersed bodies: Introduction to Drag
• drag coefficient
• form drag, and stream lining
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Unit 5 Transportation and Metering of fluid

16 lecture hours

• Pipe and tubing
• joint and fittings selection of pipe sizes
• prevention of leakage around moving parts
• stuffing boxes
• mechanical seals
• valves like Gate
• Plug cocks
• Check valves
• Fluid moving machinery: Pumps its characteristics like developed head power requirement suction lift and cavitations
• positive displacement pumps like reciprocating
• rotary pumps
• centrifugal pumps and its theory
• characteristic of head capacity relation
• pump priming
• blowers like positive displacement
• centrifugal blowers
• compressor efficiency
• vacuum pumps
• jet ejectors
• comparison of devices for moving fluids
• Measurement of flowing fluids: Full bore meter like venturimeter
• orifice meter
• coefficient of discharge of venturimeter
• area meters like Rotameter
• target meters
• vortex-shedding meters
• coriolis meters
• magnetic meters etc.
• insertion meters like pitot tubes