Basic Considerations:Introduction, Dimensions- Modules and physical quantities, Continuumview of gases and liquids, Pressure and Temperature scales, Physicalproperties of fluids.Fluid Statics:Pressure distribution in a static fluid, Pressure and its measurement,hydrostatic forces on plane and curved surfaces, buoyancy, illustrationby examples.
Fluids in motion:Methods of describing fluid motion, types of fluid flow, continuityequation in 3 dimensions, velocity potential function and streamfunction. Types of motion, Source sink, doublet , plotting of streamlines and potential lines Numerical problems.Fluid Kinematics:Kinematics of fluid motion and the constitutive equations, Integral(global) form of conservation equations (mass, momentum, energy) andapplications, Differential form of conservation equations (continuity,Navier-Stokes equations, energy equation).
Fluid Dynamics:Equations of motion: Euler’s and Bernoulli’s equation of motion forideal and real fluids. Momentum equation, Fluid flow measurements.Numerical problems.Dimensional analysis and similarity:Dimensional homogeneity, methods of dimensional analysis, modelanalysis, types of similarity and similitude. Dimensionless numbers.Model laws. Numerical problems.
Flow past Immersed bodies:Introduction to boundary layer, boundary layer thickness, karman’sintegral momentum theory, drag on a flat plate for laminar and turbulentflow, Drag on immersed bodies. Expression for drag and lift. Kutta –joukowsky theorem; Fundamentals of aerofoil theory Numericalproblems.
Compressible flow and Boundary Layers theory:Steady, one-dimensional gas dynamics, Propagation of pressure wavesin a compressible medium, velocity of sound , Mach number, Machcone, Stagnation properties , Bernoulli’s eqn for isentropic flow,normal shock waves . Numerical Problem; Laminar and turbulentboundary layers.