Advanced Fluid Mechanics
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Advanced Fluid Mechanics Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Fluid Mechanics (subject code 3711103) as prescribed for MEAA · Semester 1 divides the course into 10 units, covering 56 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 (3711103)Unit 1 Review of Basic Concepts and Fluid Properties
- Basic law of Fluid Motion
- Internal stresses and external forces on fluid elements
- Review of Concepts of Kinematics of fluid motion
- velocity potential and stream function
- irrotational flow
Unit 2 Governing Equations of Fluid Flow in Differential Form
- Navier – Stokes Equation and exact solutions
- Energy equation and solution of fluid flow with thermal effects
Unit 3 Dynamics of Ideal Fluid Motion
- Integrations of Euler’s Equation of Motion
- Generalized form of Bernoulli Equation
- Potential flows
- Principle of Superposition
Unit 4 Low Reynolds number Approximation of Navier – Stokes Equation
- Creeping flow over sphere
- Stokes and Oseen approximation
- Hydrodynamic Theory of Lubrication
Unit 5 High Reynolds number Approximation
- Prandtl’s Boundary Layer Equations
- Laminar Boundary Layer over a flat plat
- Blausius solution
- Falkner – Skan solution
- Approximation method for solution of Boundary Layer Equation
- Momentum Integral methods
- Holstein and Bohlen method
- Thermal Boundary Layer
- Reynolds Analogy
Unit 6 Transition to Turbulence
- Introduction to Theory of Hydrodynamic Stability
- Orr-Sommerfeld equation
- Results from transition studies
- factor affecting transition and its control
Unit 7 Fundamental of Turbulent flows
- Reynolds stress tensor
- Phenomenological theories of turbulence
- Prandtl’s Mixing Length and Eddy Viscosity concepts
- Universal Velocity distribution
- Laws of the Wall and the Wake
- Gas Dynamics
Unit 8 One Dimensional Isentropic Flow
- General features
- Working equations
- Choking in Isentropic flow
- Operation of nozzle
- diffuser under varying pressure ratio
- performance of real nozzles
- applications of isentropic flow
Unit 9 Normal Shocks
- Introductory remarks
- Governing equations
- Rankine Hugoniot
- Prandtl and other relations
- weak shocks
- thickness of shocks
- normal shocks in ducts
- performance of convergent divergent nozzle with shocks
- moving shock waves
- shocks problems in one dimensional supersonic diffuser
- supersonic pilot tube
Unit 10 Flow in constant area duct with friction
- Governing equations
- Working Formulas and tables
- Choking due to friction
- Performance of long duct
- Isothermal flow in long duct and flow in constant area duct with heating and cooling
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