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ME 3121: Fluid Mechanics-I

Course Outline
Course Code ME 3121 Credit 1.50
Course Title Fluid Mechanics-I Contact Hour/Week 1 Hour 30 Mins.

Semester/Term: 3rd Year 1st Semester

Academic Session: Fall-2023

Course Teacher: Tashin Ahmed Apon, Lecturer (Full-Adj.), ME, BAUET

SPIRITS IN LEARNING OF THE FUNDAMENTALS: This course is contemplated to discern and grasp the
concept of fluid, fluid characteristics and viscosity whether at rest or in motion, fluids (including gasses,
blood, and plasmas) behave differently, and this is what fluid mechanics is all about. Biological systems,
astrophysics, chemical and mechanical engineering, and many more fields rely on fluid mechanics.
Manufacturing engineers (usually mechanical engineers) employ fluid mechanics to determine what
type and amount of coolant to run over a machined workpiece. Fluid mechanics can also be used for
hydroforming and high-pressure water cutting. It imparts the requisite knowledge to petroleum
engineers for the formulation of design methodologies pertaining to drilling, production, and
transportation of oil and gas.

OBJECTIVES:

 To determine the fluid pressure and use various devices for measuring fluid pressure.
 To determine the hydrostatic force and apply the law of conservation of mass to the flow of a
fluid in the context of fluid flow problems and boundary layer theory.
 To identify the lift and drag forces acting on a submerged object by applying Bernoulli's
equation.
 To get acquainted with dimensional analysis, homogeneity, severity of dimensionless numbers
and correction factor in momentum.
 To get familiarize with other flow measuring devices, such as: notches and weirs, momentum
equation for internal control volume, pitot-static tube, venture-meter, orifices, nozzles.
 COURSE PLAN AND SCHEDULE

Week Days/Class Lecture Learning Objectives CT/Assignment/Perf Remarks/Study Resource

es ormance
1 Sunday 1+2 Introduction to Fluid Flow, Stream Slide 1, Slide 2
Monday fluid, Concept of line or related
(off Day) Viscosity Android software
download installing
on phone.
2 Monday 3 Measurement of Continuous Class PRESSURE MEASUREMENT (43—96)
Fluid Pressure using Assessment with 2.1. Pressure of a Liquid (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
Pressure Gauges Active Participation ed. P-43)
2.2. Pressure Head of a Liquid (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-43)
2.3. Pascal’s Law (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-
45)
2.4. Absolute and Gauge Pressures
(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-48)
2.5. Measurement of Pressure (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-53)
2.5.1. Manometers (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed.
P-54)
 4 2.5.1.1. Simple manometers (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-54)
2.5.1.2.Differential manometers (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P- 63)
2.5.1.3. Advantages and limitations of
manometers (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-81)
2.5.2. Mechanical gauges (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-81)
2.6. Pressure at a Point in Compressible
Fluid (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-83)
3 5 Flow Measuring Continuous Class 6.6. Practical Applications of Bernoulli’s
Devices Assessment with Equation (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-291)
Impact of Jet on Active Participation 6.6.1. Venturimeter (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed.
fixed and moving P-291)
vanes 6.6.1.1. Horizontal venturimeters
(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-292)
6.6.1.2. Vertical and inclined venturimeters
(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-298)
6.6.2. Orificemeter (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
ed. P- 303
6.6.4. Pitot Tube(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-
310)

6 6.6.3. Rotameter and elbow meter

(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-308)

6.6.3.1. Rotameter (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed.

P-308)
6.6.3.2. Elbow meter (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed.
P-309)

4 7 Notches and Weirs Continuous Class 9.1. Definitions of Notches and Weirs
Assessment with (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P- 508)
Active Participation 9.2. Types/Classification of Notches and
Weirs (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P- 508)
9·2·1. Types of notches(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
ed. P- 508)
9·2·2. Types of weirs (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed.
P- 509)

8 Momentum Analysis 6.7 Free Liquid Jet (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-

of Free Liquid Jet 313)

Review and Assessment of the

Course Plan by Peer Reviewing
5 9 Momentum Continuous Class 6.8. Impulse-Momentum Equation
Equation Assessment with (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P- 320)
Active Participation
10 Momentum 6.9. Kinetic Energy and Momentum
Correction Factors, Correction Factors (Coriolis Co-efficients)
Continuity Equation, (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P- 336)
Circulation and 5.5. Rate of Flow or Discharge(R.K.Rajput
Vorticity 2011,SI ed. P- 207)
5.6. Continuity Equation(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
ed. P- 207)
5.9. Circulation and Vorticity (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P- 218)
6 CT (Week 2-5)
11 Application Assignment Problems:(6.2-6.12),
of Euler and regarding problems (6.14,6.16,6.17,6.18,6.21,6.23,6.25)
Bernoulli’s Equation 6.2. Different Types of Heads (or Energies) of
(for pipe flows, a Liquid in Motion (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-
tanks, convergent- 259)
div. ducts) 6.3. Bernoulli’s Equation (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
ed. P- 260)
6.4. Euler’s Equation for Motion (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P- 262)
6.5. Bernoulli’s Equation for Real Fluid
(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P- 276)

7 12 Dimensional Continuous Class 7–1 Dimensions and Units (Cengel,3rd Ed.-

Analysis, Assessment with 292)
Homogeneity, Active Participation 7–2 Dimensional Homogeneity(Cengel,3rd
Buckingham’s π- Ed.- 293)
Method 7-2-1Nondimensionalization of Equations
rd
(Cengel,3 Ed.-294)
7–3 Dimensional Analysis and Similarity
(Cengel,3rd Ed.-299)
7–4 The Method of Repeating Variables
and The Buckingham Pi Theorem (Cengel,3rd
Ed.-303)
13 DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS
7.3. Dimensional Homogeneity (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-389)
7.4. Methods of Dimensional Analysis
(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-390)
7.4.1. Rayleigh’s method (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
ed. P-390)
7.4.2. Buckingham’s π-method/theorem
 (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-394)
7.4.3. Limitations of dimensional analysis
(R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-415)
8 Assessment on the Active Participation Ref book for Problems: (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI
basis of Class ed., Dr, R.K. Bansal Revised 9th ed)
performance and
Solvin’ problems
9 14 Model Analysis, Continuous 7.5. Model Analysis—Introduction
Dimensionless Participation (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-415)
Number 7.6. Similitude (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-416)
7.7. Forces Influencing Hydraulic
Phenomena (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-417)
7.8. Dimensionless Numbers and their
Significance (R.K.Rajput 2011,SI ed. P-418)
7.8.1. Reynolds number (Re) (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-418)
7.8.2. Froude’s number (Fr ) (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-419)
7.8.3. Euler’s number (Eu) (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-419)
7.8.4. Weber number (We) (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-419)
7.8.5. Mach number (M ) (R.K.Rajput
2011,SI ed. P-420)
10 Potential
Leave day

Monday(
off day)

11 15 Review and Assess 7–5 Experimental Testing, Modeling,

and Incomplete Similarity (Cengel,3rd Ed.-
319)
Setup of an Experiment and Correlation of
Experimental Data 319
Incomplete Similarity 320
Wind Tunnel Testing 320
Flows with Free Surfaces 323
12 CT 2( Week 6-11)
13 Reserved regarding Problem Solving based on Continuity Equation, Momentum and
Energy equation, dimensional Analysis and Bernoulli’s equation, (Ref book: Cengel 3rd ed, RK Rajput 2011, SI
th
ed, Dr Bansal 9 Revised ed)

14 Reserved for Revision and other Abrupt Incidents

Reference Books

FLUID MECHANICS, FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS (Third Edition): Yunus A Cengel, Mehmet
Kongolu, Michael Boles.

Text Books:

A TEXTBOOK OF FLUID MECHANICS AND HYDRAULIC MACHINES in SI UNITS: R. K. Rajput

A TEXTBOOK OF FLUID MECHANICS AND HYDRAULIC MACHINES in SI UNITS: Dr. R. K. Bansal

P.S. Additional reading material: PowerPoint slides & PDF provided by the teacher