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