Unit 1 Introduction

6 lecture hours

• Objective of the course
• Liquids and gases
• Ideal and real fluids
• Units and dimensions
• Specific gravity
• Evaporability and vapour pressure
• Surface tension and capillarity effect
• Compressibility and Bulk Modulus of Elasticity
• Newtonian and non- Newtonian fluids

Unit 2 Fluid Statics

8 lecture hours

• Pascal’s law, Hydrostatic law, Pressure variation for an incompressible fluid
• Absolute and negative pressure
• Force on a horizontal submerged plane surface
• Force on a vertical plane submerged surface
• Force on an inclined submerged plane surface
• Conditions for floating
• Archimedes’s principle
• Reason for buoyancy and three possibilities
• Applications of buoyancy and floatation
• Stability of floating bodies
• Mathematical treatment and conditions for stability
• Metacentre and its application
• Metacentric height calculation

Unit 3 Fluid Kinematics

6 lecture hours

• Description of fluid flow
• Classification of fluid flow
• Path-lines and streak lines
• Acceleration of a fluid particle
• Motion of fluid particles
• Motion of fluid particles along a curve path
• Continuity equation
• Continuity equation in polar co-ordinates
• Rotational flow
• Rotation and vorticity
• Stream function
• Potential function

Unit 4 Fluid Dynamics

• Control volume and control surface
• Energy and its forms
• Euler’s equation along a streamlines
• Euler’s equation in Cartesian co-ordinates
• Bernoulli’s theorem
• Practical Applications of Bernoulli’s equation
• Momentum of fluids in motion
• Moment of momentum equation. 6 Subject Code: 3152003 w.e.f