About this course:

  • Course Name: Fluid Mechanics - I
  • Course Code: ME 2103
  • L-T-P-C : 2-1-0-6
  • Syllabus: NaN
  • Course Type: Core course


    • Fluid Mechanics - I

    Description:

    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 Flotation, 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: plane Couette flow and plane Poiseuille flow, Inviscid flows: Bernoulli equation and applications, overview of various losses. Plane potential flows: Streamfunction-velocity potential, governing equations and boundary conditions, superposition, source, sink, free-vortex, doublet, Rankine half-body, Flow past a circular cylinder, D'Alembert's Paradox, effect of circulation and the Kutta-Zhukhovsky lift theorem, Airfoil theory:  generation of circulation and the Kutta condition, Zhukovsky transformation and lift force on a Zhukovsky airfoil

    Text Books :

    1. Frank M. White & Hongwei Xue (2022). Fluid Mechanics (9th ed.). McGraw-Hill
    2. Robert W. Fox, Alan T. McDonald & John W. Mitchell (2020). Introduction to Fluid Mechanics (10th ed.). John Wiley & Sons
    3. Andrew L. Gerhart, John I. Hochstein & Philip M. Gerhart (2021). Munson, Young and Okiishi's Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics (9th ed.). Wiley

    Reference Books :

    1. J. F. Douglas, J. M. Gasiorek, J. A. Swaffield & L. B. Jack (2008). Fluid Mechanics. Pearson Education
    2. Yunus A. Cengel & John M. Cimbala (2006). Fluid Mechanics. Tata McGraw-Hill
    3. Merle C. Potter, David C. Wiggert & Bassem H. Ramadan (2012). Mechanics of Fluids (4th ed.). Cengage Learning
    4. Pijush K. Kundu & Ira M. Cohen (2002). Fluid Mechanics (2nd ed.). Academic Press