Elements of Fluid Flow
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The official GTU curriculum for Elements of Fluid Flow (subject code 2153507) as prescribed for Env. Sci. Tech · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 59 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 (2153507)Unit 1 Introduction of Fluids
- Units and Unit Systems
- Conversion of Units
- Dimensional Analysis
- Physical properties of fluids
- Rheology of fluids
- Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluid. flow Pressure-density-height relationship
- pressure transducers
- pressure on plane and curved surfaces
- centre of pressure
- stability of immersed and floating bodies
- fluid masses subjected to linear acceleration and uniform rotation about an axis
Unit 2 Types of fluid flows
- Continuum & free molecular flows
- Steady and unsteady
- uniform and nonuniform
- laminar and turbulent flows
- rotational and irrotational flows
- compressible and incompressible flows
- sonic and supersonic flows
- critical and supercritical flows, one, two and three dimensional flows
- continuity equation for 3D and 1D flows
- stream function and velocity potential
- Dimensional analysis
- Buckingham’s Pi theorem
- important dimensionless numbers and their Significance
Unit 3 Potential Flow
- doublet and half-body
- Equation of motion along a streamline and its integration
- Bernoulli’s equation and its applications- Pitot tube
- orifice meter
- venturi meter and bend meter
- Hot- wire anemometer and LDA, notches and weirs
- momentum equation and its application to pipe bends
- Similarity Laws: geometric
- kinematics and dynamic similarity
- undistorted and distorted model studies
- Equation of motion for laminar flow through pipes
- Stokes’ law, transition from laminar to turbulent flow
- turbulent flow
- types of turbulent flow
- homogenous turbulence
- scale and intensity of turbulence
- measurement of turbulence
- eddy viscosity
- mixing length concept and velocity distribution in turbulent flow over smooth and rough surfaces
- resistance to flow
- minor losses
- pipe in series and parallel
- power transmission through a pipe
- water hammer
- three reservoir problems and pipe networks
Unit 4 Boundary layer thickness, boundary layer over a flat plate, laminar
- boundary layer
- application of momentum equation
- turbulent boundary layer
- laminar sub-layer
- separation and its control
- Drag and lift
- drag on a sphere
- a two dimensional cylinder, and an aerofoil
- Magnus effect
- Introduction to compressible flow
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