Unit 1 Introduction, Pressure and pressure measurement

5 lecture hours

• 1.1 Terminologies and Definitions used in fluid mechanics: Fluid Mechanics
• Hydro-Dynamics- Ideal and Real Fluid. 1.2 Properties of a fluid: Viscosity
• Specific Gravity
• Surface Tension
• Vapour Pressure
• Elasticity. 1.3 Various types of pressure. 1.4 Measurement of pressure or difference of pressure by various methods

Unit 2 Hydrostatics

8 lecture hours

• 2.1 Relationship between pressure and depth of liquid. 2.2 Pressure diagram for different conditions. 2.3 Total pressure and center of pressure 2.4 Computation of Total Pressure and depth of center of pressure (10 marks)

Unit 3 Hydro kinematics & Hydrodynamics

12 lecture hours

• 3.1 Types of flow - Laminar -Turbulent
• Rotational and irrotational
• Two- and Three-Dimensional flow 3.2 Reynold’s number. 3.3 Discharge & its units
• Continuity Equation. 3.4 Types of Energy – Potential
• Pressure, and kinematics. 3.5 Bernoulli’s theorem: statement
• derivation & limitations. 3.6 Practical application of Bernoulli’s theorem (16 marks)

Unit 4 Flow through pipes

• 4.1 Characteristics of flow through pipes 10 26% (18 marks) Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Civil Engineering / Environmental Engineering Subject Code: DI04000151 Subject Name: Hydraulics 4.2 Major Head losses in pipe: Computation by Darcy’s Weisbach equation
• Use of Chezy’s & Manning’s formula
• Nomograms. 4.3 Computation of minor head losses in a pipe. 4.4 Hydraulic Gradient Line (HGL) and Total Energy Line (TEL) 4.5 Flow through pipes in series (Compound Pipe) and pipes in parallel
• Equivalent Pipe. 4.6 Discharge measurement using orifice 4.7 Various Hydraulic Coefficient and its relation

Unit 5 Flow through Open Channel

10 lecture hours

• 5.1 Definition and classification of channel 5.2 Geometrical properties of channel section: Wetted area
• wetted perimeter
• hydraulic radius
• hydraulic mean depth for rectangular and trapezoidal channel section
• Froud’s number
• 5.3 Determination of discharge by Chezy’s equation and Manning’s equation
• Bazin’s equation, and Kutter’s equation
• (Without derivation). 5.4 Conditions for the most economical section: rectangular
• Trapezoidal, and circular section of open channel
• (Without derivation). 5.5 Discharge measuring devices: Triangular and rectangular Notches. 5.6 Computation of discharge through different types of weir: Narrow
• Sharp crested weir
• Cippoletti weir and Ogee weir. 5.7 Specific energy diagram. 5.8 Hydraulic jump