Week - 1 |
Definitions and principles |
Week - 2 |
Fluid statics and its applications
Hydrostatic equilibrium,
Barometric equation, U tube Manometers, Inclined tube manometers, continuous gravity decanters, Problems |
Week - 3 |
Fluid flow phenomena
Behaviour of flowing fluid, Types of flow, Newtonian and non-
Newtonian Fluids, Viscosity and momentum flux, Viscosities of gases and liquids,
Turbulence, Reynolds experiment,
Flow in boundary layers, Laminar and
Turbulent flow in Boundary layers, Boundary layer formation in straight tubes, Boundary
layer separation; Problems |
Week - 4 |
Flow past immersed bodies
Drag coefficients; Friction in flow through beds of solids, Erguns equation; Motion of particles through fluids; Fluidization, minimum fluidization velocity, expansion of -fluidized beds, application of fluidization; Problems |
Week - 5 |
Flow past immersed bodies
Drag coefficients; Friction in flow through beds of solids, Erguns equation; Motion of particles through fluids; Fluidization, minimum fluidization velocity, expansion of -fluidized beds, application of fluidization; Problems |
Week - 6 |
Flow past immersed bodies
Drag coefficients; Friction in flow through beds of solids, Erguns equation; Motion of particles through fluids; Fluidization, minimum fluidization velocity, expansion of -fluidized beds, application of fluidization; Problems |
Week - 7 |
Transportation and metering of fluids
Pipe and tubing, joints and fittings.
Prevention of leakage around moving parts. Valves- Measurement of flowing fluids, venturimeter,
orificemeter, pitot tube. Problems |
Week - 8 |
Transportation and metering of fluids
Pipe and tubing, joints and fittings.
Prevention of leakage around moving parts. Valves- Measurement of flowing fluids, venturimeter,
orificemeter, pitot tube. Problems |