COURSE OBJECTIVES
• To enable students to learn advanced principles of fluid mechanics for broader application to civil engineering projects.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLO)
CLO: 1. To analyze the forces in fluid flow, similitude & dimensional analysis and uniform flow in open channels
CLO: 2. To assess the performance of turbines and pumps.
CLO: 3. To clarify and justify the basic concepts of pumps and turbines.
CLO: 4. To perform various calculation of fluid flows using MS Excel
COURSE CONTENTS
- Similitude and Dimensional Analysis
- Similitude in hydraulic models
- Similitude requirements: geometric, kinematics and dynamics similarities
- Dimensionless numbers and their significance
- Releigh’s method
- Buckingham’s PI-theorem and its application, physical models, techniques and analysis
- Introduction to numerical models
- Impacts of Jet
- Development of the momentum principle
- Application of the momentum principle
- Forces on pressure conduits
- Force of a free jet on stationary vane
- Force of a free jet on moving vane
- Water Turbines
- Types, reaction and impulse-turbines
- Momentum equation applied to turbines
- Specify speed, Turbine characteristic
- Centrifugal Pumps
- Classifications
- Construction features, operation and efficiencies
- Specific speed and characteristic curves
- Cavitation and operation
- Reciprocating Pumps
- Types
- Construction features and working,
- Maximum suction lift,
- Air vessels
- Uniform Flow in Open Channels
- Chezy’s and Manning’s equations
- Bazin’s and Kutter’s equations
- Most economical rectangular and trapezoidal sections
- Hydrodynamics Review
- Ideal and real fluid
- Differential equation of continuity
- Rotational and irrational flow
- Stream function and velocity potential function
- Brief description of flow fields
- Orthogonality of stream lines and equipotential lines
- Flow net and its limitations
- Different methods of drawing flow net.
- Introduction to related software