Unit 1
Introduction and Basic concepts of Fluid Mechanics. Continuum assumption. Fluid properties such as density, specific volume, specific weight, specific gravity. Pressure, vapor pressure, cavitation, viscosity, Newton’s law of viscosity. Models for non-Newtonian fluids. Surface Tension and capillarity. Coefficient of compressibility. Machnumber. Hydrostatics. Pressure distribution in a static fluid – Pascal’s law and hydrostatic law. Absolute, gauge and vacuum pressures. Static pressure measurement. Manometry.
Hydrostatic Force on plane surfaces and curved surface.
Buoyancy. Archimedes principle. Stability of floating bodies, Meta centric height.
Eulerian and Lagrangian description of fluids, local and convective acceleration. Flow visualization – streamlines, streak lines, pathlines, time lines, contour and vector plots.
Flow kinematics – vorticity and rotationality.