I am student of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) and from here doing engineering degree searching for question papers. Will you provide me VTU Fluid Mechanics Question Papers along with VTU Fluid Mechanics BMCT syllabus so I can prepare well for exams?

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Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) previously spelled as Visveswaraiah Technological University is a collegiate public state university in Karnataka State, India

Please find the below attached file for the VTU Fluid Mechanics Question Papers:

VTU Fluid Mechanics Question Paper




Syllabus:

Part A

Unit-1Properties of Fluids 6 hours
Introduction, Types of fluid, Properties of fluids, viscosity, thermodynamic properties, surface tension, capillarity, vapour pressure and cavitation

Unit-2Fluid Statistics 7 hours
Fluid pressure at a point, Pascal’s law, pressure variation in a static fluid, absolute, gauge, atmospheric and vacuum pressures, simple manometers and differential manometers. Total pressure and center of pressure on submerged plane surfaces; horizontal, vertical and inclined plane surfaces, curved surface submerged in liquid.

Unit-3Buoyancy and Fluid Kinematics 7 hours
Buoyancy, center of buoyancy, metacentre and metacentric height, conditions of equilibrium of floating and submerged bodies, determination of Metacentric height experimentally and theoretically. Kinematics: Types of fluid flow, continuity equation in 2D and 3D (Cartesian Co-ordinates only), velocity and acceleration, velocity potential function and stream function.

Unit-4Fluid Dynamics 6 hours
Introduction equation of motion, Euler’s equation of motion, Bernoulli’s equation from first principles and also from Euler’s equation, limitations of Bernoulli’s equation.

Part B

Unit-5Fluid Flow Measurements Dimensional Analysis 7 hours
Fluid Flow Measurements : Venturimeter, orificemeter, pitot-tube, vertical orifice, V-Notch and rectangular notches. Dimensional Analysis : Introduction, derived quantities, dimensions of physical quantities, dimensional homogeneity, Rayleigh’s method,Buckingham π theorem, dimensionless numbers, similitude, types of similitudes.

Unit-6Flow through pipes 6 hours
Minor losses through pipes. Darey’s and Chezy’s equation for loss of head due to friction in pipes. HGL and TEL.

Unit-7Laminar flow and viscous effects 6 hours
Reyonold’s number, critical Reynold’s number, laminar flow through circular pipe-Hagen Poiseille’s equation, laminar flow between parallel and stationary plates.

Unit-8Flow past immersed bodies Introduction to compressible flow 7 hours
Flow past immersed bodies : Drag, Lift, expression for lift and drag, boundary layer concept, displacement, momentum and energy thickness. Introduction to compressible flow : Velocity of sound in a fluid, Mach number, Mach cone, propagation of pressure waves in a compressible fluid.

Contact:

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Visvesvaraya Technological University
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Belagavi : 590018
Karnataka, India.
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