AKTU Fluid Mechanics and Rheology (BPL302) Syllabus PDF – B.Tech 2nd Year
Fluid Mechanics and Rheology BPL302
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Syllabus — Fluid Mechanics and Rheology
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Course Outcomes
| Course Outcome: Student will be able to | Blooms Taxonomy | |
| CO 1 | Learn about the application of mass and momentum conservation laws for fluid flows. | K2 |
| CO 2 | Understand the importance of dimensional analysis. | K2 |
| CO 3 | Learn about velocity and pressure variations in various types of simple flows. | K2 |
| CO 4 | Learn the basics of polymer deformation and flow properties. | K2 |
| CO 5 | Analyses the rheological properties of polymer systems using rheometers . | K3 |
UNIT-I (08 Lectures)
Definition of fluid, Newton’s law of viscosity, Units and dimensions-Properties of fluids, mass density, specific volume, specific gravity, viscosity, compressibility and surface tension, Incompressible flow, Bernoulli’s equation and its applications - Pitot tube, orifice meter, venturi meter and bend meter, notches and weirs, momentum equation and its application to pipe bends.
UNIT-II (08 Lectures)
Continuum & free molecular flows. Steady and unsteady, uniform and non-uniform, laminar and turbulent flows, rotational and irrotational flows, compressible and incompressible flows, subsonic, sonic and supersonic flows, sub-critical, critical and supercritical flows, one, two- and three dimensional flows, streamlines, continuity equation for 3D and 1D flows, circulation, stream function and velocity potential. Buckingham’s Pi theorem, important dimensionless numbers and their significance.
UNIT-III (08 Lectures)
Equation of motion for laminar flow through pipes, turbulent flow, isotropic, homogenous turbulence, scale and intensity of turbulence, measurement of turbulence, eddy viscosity, resistance to flow, minor losses, pipe in series and parallel, power transmission through a pipe, siphon, water hammer, three reservoir problems and pipe networks.
Boundary layer thickness, boundary layer over a flat plate, laminar boundary layer, application of momentum equation, turbulent boundary layer, laminar sublayer, separation and its control, Drag and lift, drag on a sphere, a two-dimensional cylinder, and an aerofoil, Magnus effect.
UNIT-IV (08 Lectures)
Introduction to polymer rheology, Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids, shear stress, shear strain and shear rate, shear modulus, bulk modulus, Zero shear viscosity, Dependence of viscosity with temperature, shear stress, Viscoelasticity - effect of rate of strain, temperature and time on mechanical behavior of polymeric materials.
UNIT-V(08 Lectures)
Measurement of viscosity and normal stresses. Dynamic flow behavior, time dependent fluid responses. Capillary rheometers, cone and plate viscometer, parallel-plate rheometer, oscillating disc rheometer, Mooney viscometer. Rheology of modified polymer systems. Measurements of rheological properties.
Reference Books
- Introduction to fluid mechanics and Fluid machines by S.K Som, Gautam Biswas, S Chakraborty.
- Fluid mechanics and machines by R.K Bansal.
- F. M. White, Fluid Mechanics, 6th Ed., Tata McGraw-Hill, 2008.
- Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications by V.K. Gupta et.al. 5. Fluid Mechanics by Yunus Cengel
- Batchelor, G. K. (1999). Introduction to fluid dynamics. New Delhi, India: Cambridge University Press.
- Acheson, D. J. (1990). Elementary fluid dynamics. New York, USA: Oxford University Press
- R.W. Fox, A.T. McDonald and P.J. Pritchard, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 6th Ed., John Wiley, 2004.
- Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machines, 5/ed by Mahesh Kumar, Pearson Education
- Fluid Mechanics, 2e in SI Units, by R.C Hibbeler, Pearson Education
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