Fluid Mechanics (CE2513)

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Fluid Mechanics With Engineering Application,  Daugherty, R.L.,J.B. Franzini And Fenimore, Latest Edition

Fundamentals Of Fluid Mechanics, Monson Young,  Latest Edition

Fluid Mechanics, Douglus,McGraw-Hill Inc.

1. To understand fundamentals of fluid mechanics.

2. To enhance skills of utilizing fluid mechanics for civil engineering applications.

CLO:1            Understand the basic concept of fluid statics and kinematics.

CLO:2            Understand the steady flow through pipes.

CLO:3            Have knowledge about fluid mechanics application in civil engineering.

CLO:4            Have knowledge about uniform flow in open channels.

• Solids and fluids (liquids and gases)
• Units and dimensions
• Physical properties of fluids; density, specific weight, specific volume, specific gravity, surface tension, compressibility
• Viscosity and its measurement
• Newton’s equation of viscosity
• Hydrostatics
• Kinematics
• Hydrodynamics
•  Hydraulics

• Pressure intensity and pressure head
• Pressure and specific weight relationship
• Absolute and gauge pressure
• Measurement of pressure
• Piezometer, manometer
• Pressure transducers
• Differential manometer and Borden gauge

• Forces on submerged planes & curved surfaces and their applications
• Drag and lift forces, buoyancy and floatation
• Equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies

• Steady and unsteady flow
• Laminar and turbulent flow
• Uniform and non-uniform flow
• Pathline streamlines and stream tubes
• Velocity and discharge
• Control volume
• Equation of continuity for compressible and incompressible fluids

• Different forms of energy in a flowing liquid
• Bernoulli’s equation and its application
• Energy line and Hydraulic Gradient Line
• Introduction to density currents, free and forced vortex
• Forces on pressure conduits, reducers and bends, stationary and moving blades
• Torques in rotating machines

• Orifices and mouthpieces, sharp-crested weirs and notches
• Pitot tube and pitot static tube
• Venturimeter, velocity methods

• Darcy-Weisbach equation for flow in pipes
• Losses in pipe lines
• Hydraulic grade lines and energy lines
• Pipes in series and parallel
• Transmission of energy through pipes
• Introduction to computer aided analysis of pipe networks

• Chezy’s and Manning’s equations
• Bazin’s and Kutter’s equations
• Most economical rectangular and trapezoidal sections