Course Folder of Fluid Mechanics
Course number: CHO102
Course name: Fluid Mechanics
Course Credits: 11
Lecture (T) Tutorial (T) Practical (P) Credits (Cr): 3 1 0 11
Instructor: Dr. Vijay Shinde Department of Chemical Engineering IIT (BHU)
Class timing
The classes will be held as follows in LT 3.2 C.
Monday 10.00-10.55 (L)
Wednesday 10.00-10.55 (L)
Thursday 4.30-5.25 (T)
Friday 10.00-10.55 (L)
Grading Policy
Total: 100 Marks
Mid-term Examination: 30 marks
Class participation: 10 marks
End semester Examination: 60 marks
OBJECTIVE
This course aims to develop an understanding of fluids' behaviour in motion or at
rest and the subsequent effects of the fluids on the boundaries. The study of
this subject will develop analytical abilities related to fluid flow.
Topics to be covered..
Fluid Properties and Fluid Statics: Concept of fluid and flow, ideal and real
fluids, continuum concept, properties of fluids, Newtonian and non-Newtonian
fluids. Pascal's law, hydrostatic equation, hydrostatic forces on a submerged
plane and curved surfaces, stability of floating bodies, relative equilibrium.
Fluid Kinematics: Eulerian and Lagrangian description of fluid flow; types of
flows, flow rate, stream, streak and path lines; Concept of system and control
volume, and continuity equation, Reynolds transport theorem, Differential
equation of continuity in cylindrical and polar coordinates, rotation, vorticity and
circulation, potential flow, stream and potential functions, flow net.
Mid Examination
Viscous Flow: Flow regimes and Reynold's number, Relationship between shear
stress and pressure gradient, uni-directional flow between stationary and moving
parallel plates.
Fluid Dynamics: Euler's equation, Stoke's equation, Bernoulli's equation, kinetic
and momentum correction factors, Impulse momentum relationship and its
applications.
Flow Through Pipes: Major and minor losses in pipes, Hagen-Poiseuilli law,
hydraulic gradient and total energy lines, series and parallel connection of pipes,
branched pipes; equivalent pipe, power transmission through pipes, pipe fittings
and valves.
Dimensional Analysis and Hydraulic Similitude: Dimensional analysis
Buckingham's Pi theorem, important dimensionless numbers and their
significance, geometric, kinematics and dynamic similarity, model studies.
Boundary Layer Flow: Boundary layer concept, displacement, momentum and
energy thickness, laminar and turbulent boundary layer flows, Drag force and
drag coefficient ,drag on a flat plate, boundary layer separation and control.
Streamlined and bluff bodies, lift and drag on a cylinder and an airfoil.
Introduction to turbulence.
Final Examination
TEXTBOOKS
1. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by Fox and Mcdonald.
2. Fluid Mechanics by Frank M. White.
3. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines by S.K. Som and G. Biswas.
REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Transport Phenomena by R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, and Edwin N.
Lightfoot.