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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: Vice Chancellor Visvesvaraya Technological University “Jnana Sangama” Belagavi : 590018 Karnataka, India. Tele: 0831-2498225 ,2405454 |
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