Advanced Hydraulics
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Hydraulics (subject code ME01033018) as prescribed for C(RE · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 49 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 (ME01033018)Unit 1 Flow in pipes
- Equation of fluid motion
- Momentum and Energy equations
- Navier- Stokes equation exact and approximate solutions
- laminar flow in pipes
- flow between parallel plates
- Couette flow Turbulent Flows: Reynolds equations of motion
- semi-empirical theories of turbulence
- velocity profiles for inner
- outer and overlap layers
- Boundary Layers: Similarity solutions of boundary layer equations
- Falkner-Skan Wedge flows
- Karman’s momentum integral equations
- Karman-Puhlhausen approximate solution
- separation in boundary layer under adverse pressure gradient
- turbulent boundary layer
- skin drag
Unit 2 Flow in channels
- Steady non-uniform flow
- water surface profiles and its computation
- Elements of hydraulic jump
- hydraulic jump in variety of situations including contracting and expanding geometries and rise in floor levels
- Design of channel transitions
- Unsteady Flows: St
- Venant’s equations and their solution using method of characteristics and finite difference schemes
- dam break problem
- surges in channel resulting from gate operation
- propagation of positive and negative waves
- application of Method of Characteristics
- Finite Difference and Finite element methods to transient flow in open channels Spatially Varied Flows: Flows past side weirs
- De Marchi equations
- design of side weirs
- flow past bottom racks
- trench weirs and waste water gutters
- Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Civil (Water Resource Engineering) Course / Subject Code: ME01033018 Course / Subject Name: Advanced Hydraulics
Unit 3 Flow Past Immersed 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 4 Pumps and Turbines
- Water Turbines: Impulse turbine
- Reaction turbine
- Specific speed
- Unit quantities
- Performance characteristics for water turbines Centrifugal pumps: Pumps in series and parallel
- Unit quantities, and characteristics curves
- Cavitation in turbines and pumps
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