MME 2202: FLUID MECHANICS [3 1 0 4]

No. of Lecture hours: 48

Properties of fluids: Mass density, specific weight, relative density, specific volume, coefficient of
dynamic viscosity, kinematic viscosity, Newtonian and Non-Newtonian fluids, ideal and real fluids, surface
tension, capillarity, vapor pressure, bulk modulus and compressibility. [04] (CRK)
Fluid statics: Intensity of pressure, Pascals law, pressure variation in static fluid, pressure
measurement by manometers. [05] (CRK)
Hydrostatic forces on surfaces: Resultant hydrostatic force and centre of pressure on horizontal,
vertical, inclined and curved plane surface submerged in a liquid. [05] (CRK)
Buoyancy: Equilibrium of floating bodies, Metacenter and Metacentric height, determination of
metacentric height (Experimental and Analytical). Stability of floating and submerged bodies. [05]
(VGS)
Kinematics of fluid flow: Methods of describing the fluid motion, path line, stream line, streak line and
stream tube. Types of flow, Continuity equation for one and three dimensional flow, fluid velocity
and acceleration. [04] (DJN)
Dynamics of fluid flow: Energy possessed by fluid, Eulers equation of motion along a stream line and
reducing it to Bernoullis equation, Impulse momentum equation. [04] (DJN)
Dimensional analysis: Fundamental and derived units of dimensions, dimensional homogeneity,
Rayleighs method and Buckinghams Pi-theorem, similitude, types of similarity, significance of
dimensionless numbers. [04] (DJN)
Fluid flow measurements: Venturimeter, Orifice, Orifice meter, Pitot tube and V-notch and
Rectangular notch. [04] (DJN)
Viscous Flow: Reynolds experiment, Reynolds Number, critical Reynolds number laminar flow through
circular pipe (Hagen Poiseuilles equation), laminar flow between fixed parallel plates.[04] (VGS)
Flow through pipes: Major loss and Minor losses in pipe flow, Darcy and Chezy equation, Siphon,
Hydraulic transmission of power through pipes-efficiency of transmission, Hydraulic gradient and
Total energy line. [05] (VGS)
Flow past immersed bodies: Definition of Lift and drag, skin friction drag and form drag,
streamlined body, Bluff body, Boundary layer concept, laminar boundary layer thickness,
displacement and momentum thickness. Boundary layer separation. [04] (VGS)

References:
1. Streeter V. L. and Beinzamin E., Fluid Mechanics, Willy Intl., New York,1998.
2. Modi P. N. and Seth S. M., Hydraulics and Fluid Mechnics, Standard Book House, 2011.
3. Kumar K. L., Engineering Fluid Mechanics, Eurasia Publishing House, New Delhi, 2000.
4. Bansal R. K., Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, Laxmi Publication, New Delhi,
2006.

5. Yunus A. Cengel and John M. Cimbla, Fluid Mechanics, Tata McGraw-Hill Publications,
2006.
6. Bruce R. Munson, Donald F. Young and Teodore H. Okiishi, Fundamentals of Fluid
Mechnics, Wiley, 2005.