ME 214 |
Fluid Mechanics - I |
2-1-0-6 |
Syllabus: Introduction; Basic ideas of
continuum, fluid properties including viscosity, surface tension and vapour
pressure, Fluid Statics: Hydrostatic pressure distribution, Manometry, Forces on submerged bodies, Buoyancy and
Floatation, Stability of floating bodies, Pressure distribution in rigid body
motion, Fluid Kinematics: Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions, Deformation of fluid element,
Strain rates, Vorticity, Flow description using pathline, streamline and streak line, Conservation laws:
Reynolds Transport Theorem, Integral form of conservation laws - mass, linear
momentum, angular momentum and energy, Differential form of conservation
laws, Elementary derivation of Navier-Stokes
equations, Exact solution to Navier-Stokes
equations: Couette flow and Poiseulle
flow, Inviscid flows: Bernoulli equation and
applications, overview of various losses. Plane potential flows: Streamfunction-velocity potential, superposition, source,
sink, Doublet, Rankine half body, flow past a
cylinder, circulation, D'Alembert's Paradox. Dimensional analysis:
Buckingham Pi theorem, dimensionless groups, similitude laws and scaling,
practical applications. Texts: [1] F. M. White, Fluid Mechanics,
Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008. [2] R. W. Fox, A.T. McDonald
and P.J. Pritchard, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, John Wiley, 2004 [3] B. R. Munson, D. F.
Young and T. H. Okhiishi, Fundamentals of Fluid
Mechanics, Wiley India Edition, 2002. References: [1] J. F. Douglas, J.M. Gasiorek, J. A. Swaffield and
L.B. Jack, Fluid Mechanics, Pearson Education, 2008. [2] Y. A. Cengel and J.M. Cimbala, Fluid
Mechanics, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2006. [3] M. C. Potter, D. C. Wiggert and B. H. Ramadan, Mechanics of Fluids, Cengage Learning, 2012. |