Fluid Mechanics
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Fluid Mechanics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Mechanics (subject code 2130602) as prescribed for Civil Engineering · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 88 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 (2130602)Unit 1 Module 1
- Properties of Fluids Mass density
- specific weight
- specific gravity
- specific volume
- vapour pressure
- surface tension
- Newton’s law of viscosity
- classification of fluids
- dynamic viscosity
- kinematic viscosity
- variation of viscosity with temperature
- Basic concept applicable to fluid mechanics
Unit 2 Module 2
- Fluid Statics Measurement of Pressure Pressure variation in static fluid
- PASCAL’s law, Units and scale of pressure measurement- Atmospheric pressure
- Absolute pressure
- Gauge pressure, and Vacuum pressure
- Hydrostatic paradox
- U- Tube manometer
- Single column manometer
- U-tube differential manometer
- Inverted U-tube differential manometer
- Mechanical pressure gauges
- Hydrostatic force on plane and curved surface : Total pressure and center of pressure
- pressure diagram
- Total pressure on plane surfaces and curved surfaces depth of center of pressure
- Practical applications of Total pressure and Center of pressure
- Buoyancy and Flotation: Buoyant force
- Buoyancy and Center of Buoyancy
- Archimedes Principle
- Metacentre and Metacentric height
- Equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies
- Metacentric height evaluation –theorectical and experimental method
- Oscillation of floating body Fluids in Relative Equilibrium: Static fluid subjected to uniform linear acceleration
- Liquid containers subjected to constant horizontal acceleration
- Liquid containers subjected to constant vertical acceleration
- Liquid containers subjected to constant rotation
Unit 3 Module 3
- Fluid Kinematics 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
- Velocity potential and stream function
- flow net, Source
- Sink and Doublet
Unit 4 Module 4
- Fluid Dynamics Euler’s equation
- Bernoulli’s equation
- Energy correction factor
Unit 5 Module 5
- Flow Measuring Devices Measurement of discharge- Venturimeter
- Measurement of velocity-Pitot tube
- Orifice- classification
- Flow through reservoir opening i.e. orifice
- trajectory of free jet, hydraulic coefficients
- Experimental determination of hydraulic coefficients
- Small and large orifice
- Time of emptying a tank with orifice
- Mouthpiece- classification
- External cylindrical mouthpiece
- Convergent –divergent mouthpiece
- Borda’s mouthpiece
- Notches and weirs-discharge over rectangular notch and triangular notch
- Velocity of approach
- End Contractions
- Cippoletti notch
- Time of emptying a tank with notch or weir
- Ventilation of weir
- Sutro weir
Unit 6 Module 6
- Flow Immersed Past Bodies Drag and lift
- Types of drag
- Drag on sphere
- flat plate and Airfoil
- Karman vortex street
- Effect of drag
- Development of lift
- Magnus effect
- Circulation and lift characteristics of airfoils
Unit 7 Module 7 Compressible Flow
- Basic equations
- Mach number
- Mach cone
- Area-velocity relationship
- Propagation of sound wave
- Stagnation properties
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