Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
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The official GTU curriculum for Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer (subject code BE04000311) as prescribed for Industrial · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 60 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 (BE04000311)Unit 1 Fluids and Their Properties
- Fluid classifications
- hypothesis of continuum
- shear stress in a moving fluid
- molecular structure of material
- surface tension
- capillary effect
- vapor pressure
- compressibility and the bulk modulus
- Pascal’s law of pressure at a point
- variation of pressure vertically in a fluid under gravity
- equality of pressure at the same level in a static fluid
- general equation for the variation of pressure due to gravity from a point to point in a static fluid
- pressure and head
- hydrostatic paradox
Unit 2 Static Forces on Surface and Buoyancy
- Fluid static
- action of fluid pressure on surface
- resultant force and center of pressure on a plane surface under uniform pressure and surface immersed in a liquid
- pressure diagrams
- forces on a curved surface due to hydrostatic pressure
- equilibrium of floating bodies
- stability of a submerged body and floating bodies
- determination of the metacentric height
- determination of the position of the metacenter relative to the center of buoyancy
Unit 3 Motion of Fluid Particles and Streams
- Different types of fluid flow
- frames of reference
- analyzing fluid flow
- motion of a fluid particle
- acceleration of a fluid particle
- discharge and mean velocity
- continuity of flow
- continuity equations for 2-D flow in Cartesian coordinates of system The Energy Equation and its Application: Momentum and fluid flow
- Momentum equation for 2-D flow along a stream line
- momentum correction factor
- Euler’s equation of motion along a stream line
- mechanical energy of a flowing fluid
- Bernoulli’s theorem
- kinetic energy correction factor
- principle of venturimeter
Unit 4 Conduction
- Fourier’s law, effect of temperature on thermal conductivity of different solids
- liquids and gases
- generalized equation in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates and its reduction to specific cases
- One dimensional steady state conduction
- heat conduction through plane and composite walls and cylinders
- electrical analogy
- critical radius of insulation for cylinder
- overall heat transfer coefficient Heat transfer from extended surface: Types of fin, heat flow through uniform cross- sectional area fin insulated at the tip, efficiency and effectiveness of fin
Unit 5 Convection
- Newton’s law of cooling
- dimensional analysis applied to forced and free convection
- dimensionless numbers and their physical significance
- empirical correlations for free and forced convection
- momentum and energy equations
- thermal and hydrodynamic boundary layer
Unit 6 Radiation
- reflectivity and transmissivity
- white and grey body
- emissive power
- Kirchhoff’s law, Planck’s law, Rayleigh-Jeans’ law, Wien’s law, Wien’s displacement law, Stefan-Boltzmann law, intensity of radiation
- radiation heat exchange between black bodies
- shape factor
- radiation heat exchange between gray bodies
- radiation shields
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