B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering · Semester 3
Fluid Mechanics and Open Channel Hydraulics
Syllabus lecture plan
- 01Properties of fluids: ideal and real fluid, units
- 02Pressure and its measurement
- 03Pascal's law, pressure forces on plane and curved surfaces, centre of 1 pressure, pressure diagram
- 04Application of hydrostatics in engineering structures
- 05Buoyancy, Archimede's principle, metacentre and metacentric height, 1 condition of floatation and stability of submerged and floating bodies
- 06Kinematics of fluid flow: Lagrangian and Eulerian description of fluid 2 motion, continuity equation, path lines, streak lines and stream lines, stream 2 function, velocity potential and flow net
- 07Types of fluid flow, translation, rotation, circulation and vorticity, vortex motion
- 08Dynamics of fluid flow, Bernoulli's theorem, venturimeter, orifice meter and 2 pitot tube, siphon Flow through orifices (measurement of discharge, 1 measurement of time), flow through mouthpieces; Flow over notches, flow 32 over weirs, end contraction of rectangular weirs, ventilation of weirs, various types of nappe
- 10Chezy's formula for loss of head in pipes, flow through simple and compound pipes, transmission of power through pipes
- 11Open channel design and hydraulics: Chezy's formula, Bazin's formula
- 12Discharge measurement in open channels: current meter
- 13Dimensional analysis and similitude: Rayleigh's method and Buckingham's
- 14Introduction to fluid machinery
Part of the B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each lecture on theciae.