Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics
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The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics (subject code 2154002) as prescribed for Civil Infra · Semester 5 divides the course into 8 units, covering 76 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 (2154002)Unit 1 Properties of Fluids
- Fluid properties and classification
- concept of viscosity
- compressibility and Elasticity
- Surface tension and capillarity
- Newton’s law of viscosity
- dynamic viscosity
- classification of fluids
- kinematic viscosity
- variation of viscosity with temperature
Unit 2 Fluid Statics
- Pascal law, Hydrostatic law, Relative equilibrium
- Pressure measurements- atmospheric pressure
- Absolute pressure
- Gauge pressure, and Vacuum pressure
- Forces on immersed bodies: Drag and Lift
Unit 3 Fluid Kinematics
- 6 10% Fluid flow methods of analysis of fluid motion
- Path lines
- Streak lines and Stream tubes
- Types of fluid flow-Steady and unsteady flow
- Uniform and non-uniform flow
- Laminar and turbulent flow
- Reynolds number
- Reynolds experiment
- Rotational and Irrotational flow
- critical and Supercritical flow
- Compressible and Incompressible flow, One, Two and three dimensional flow
- Circulation and vorticity
- Stream function and Flownet
Unit 4 Fluid Dynamics
- Equation of Motion: Euler’s equation
- Bernoulli’s equation
- Energy correction factor
- Coefficients of contraction
- velocity and discharge
- Differential head meters
- Free vortex motion
- Analysis of free liquid Jet, Cavitation
- Linear momentum equation
- Force on pipe junctions and bends
- Forces on moving plates and vanes due to fluid flow
- Angular momentum
- Forced vortex
Unit 5 Flow Measuring Devices
- Measurement of discharge-Venturimeter
- Orifice meter
- mouth pieces
- Nozzle meter
- Flow under sluice gates
- Time of empting tanks with or without inflow
- Measurement of velocity-Pitot tube
Unit 6 Hydraulic Machines
- Turbines: classification of tribunes
- Impulse and Reaction turbines
- characteristic curves
- draft tubes
- Pumps: classification of pumps
- centrifugal pump
- efficiency and power
- Output of centrifugal pumps
- characteristics curves
Unit 7 Pipe Hydraulics
- Review of the basic equations: continuity
- momentum, and energy
- Flow through closed conduits: Laminar flow
- Turbulent flow
- Pipe Flow Problems: Losses in pipe flow
- pipes in series
- pipes in parallel
- branching pipes
- multi-reservoir problems
- pipe networks
- unsteady flow in pipes
- water hammer analysis
Unit 8 Open Channel Hydraulics
- Flow through open channels: Uniform flow
- Critical flow
- Gradually Varied flow
- Rapidly Varied flow
- Spatially Varied flow
- Unsteady flow
- Dimensional analysis
- Buckinghum’s theorem
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