Fluid Flow Operations
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Fluid Flow Operations Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Flow Operations (subject code 3130502) as prescribed for Chemical · Semester 3 divides the course into 4 units, covering 48 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 (3130502)Unit 1 Fluid static and its application
- 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
- 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
- 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. 10 Subject Code: 3130502 w.e.f
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