Unit 1

Elementary concepts – properties – concept of gauge and absolute pressure, measurement of pressure using manometers of different types.

Hydrostatic force on plane and curved surface – center of pressure – lock gates – buoyancy and stability of submerged and floating bodies – metacentric height – period of oscillation.

Types of flow, definitions and explanations of unsteady, steady, non-uniform, laminar and turbulent flows. Ideal flow – rotational and irrotational, stream function, potential function. Path line, streak line and stream line – continuity equation – derivation, application of one dimensional steady flow – circulation and vorticity – Basic flow fields such as uniform flow, source, sink, doublet, vortex flow, spiral flow – superposed flows.

Unit 2

Derivation of Bernoulli’s energy equation and Euler’s equation, examples illustrating the use of energy equation. Flow meters – venturimeter, Orifice meter, nozzle, derivation of equations of discharge, pitot tubes – applications to flow measurements – notches and weirs.

Laminar flow through circular pipe – shear stress, pressure gradient, velocity profile, Hagen-poiseuille’s equation, power calculations, laminar flow between parallel plates – Couette flow and Poiseuille flow.

Flow in closed conduits – friction loss and flow calculations, turbulent flow, Reynolds number, Darcy-Weisbach equation. Use of Moody’s diagram, minor losses – pipe networks – pipes in parallel and series – equivalent length.

Unit 3

1. Streeter Victor L and E. Benjamin Wylie, “Fluid Mechanics”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010.
2. Modi P. N. and Seth S. M., “Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics including Fluid Machines”, Standard Publishers & Distributors, 2013.

• Cengel and Cimbala, “Fluid Mechanics”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishers, 2010.
• Som S K, Gautam Biswas and Suman Chakrabarty, “Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid machines”, Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd, 2013
• N. N. Pillai, “Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines”, Universities Press, 2008.
• Subramanya K., “Theory and Applications of Fluid Mechanics”, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Co, 1993.
• J. F. Douglas, J. M. Gasiorek and J. A. Swaffield., “Fluid Mechanics”, Pearson Education, 2008.
• White, Frank. M, “Fluid Mechanics”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2011.