Unit 1 Introduction to fluid and its application

3 lecture hours

• Fluid properties and its classification
• Pressure – Hydrostatic Equation
• Pressure scales and Measurement
• Manometers – different types of manometers

Unit 2 Fluid Flow phenomena and its basic equations

8 lecture hours

• Fluid flow over a flat plate
• Boundary layer
• Transition length
• Wake formation
• Continuity equation
• Bernoulli’s equation
• Correction factors in Bernoulli’s Equation
• Pump Work

Unit 3 Flow of incompressible fluids in conduits and thin layers

8 lecture hours

• Shear stress distribution
• friction factor
• Hagen Poiseulli’s Equation
• Flow through non- circular cross sections
• Equivalent diameter
• Hydraulic radius
• friction loss from sudden expansion or contraction of cross section and fittings and valves
• Form friction and skin friction

Unit 4 Flow past Immersed bodies

10 lecture hours

• Drag Coefficients
• Stream lining
• Stagnation pressure
• Flow of fluid through a bed – Fluidization
• Types of fluidization and applications
• Motion of particles through fluids

Unit 5 Transportation and metering of fluids

• joints and fittings selection of pipe size
• Valves like Gate
• Plug cocks
• Check valves Introduction to fluid flow measuring instruments like venturimeter
• orifice meter
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