Fluid Mechanics - Video Lectures

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    Course Summary:

    Quick Review of Theory and Solving Representative Problems on Fluid Mechanics covering the undergraduate chemical engineering syllabus, and latest GATE-exam syllabus: Fluid Properties, Fluid Statics, Fundamental Equations of Fluid Flow, Frictional Pressure Drop, Flow Meters, Power Requirement for Pumping, Drag, Flow through Bed of Solids, Packed and Fluidized Beds. 

    • Objective Type Questions and Problems with Detailed Solutions (150 nos.) - Video Lectures with Handwritten-Transcripts
      
    • Topic-wise Self-Assessment Quizzes
      
    • Questions from Past GATE Exams CH, XE, CE streams, and Standard Textbooks such as White, Munson, Cengel, etc.
    • Videos: 14 hours of recorded lectures - 1 hour of Theory; 13 hours of Problem Solving

    This course is part of Chemical Engineering Video Lectures Bundle.
    
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  Representative questions are listed. Shall go through this list for a quicker learning / revising of this Course.
  

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• Select section Fluid Statics

  Fluid Statics

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  Pressure measurement with manometers, force on the side of tank with liquids, surface tension, capillary rise / fall.

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  Buoyancy

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  Height of submergence of floating bodies, tension in wire holding a floating solid in a fluid, hydrometer.

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• Select section Basics of Fluid Flow

  Basics of Fluid Flow

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• Select section Bernoulli - Applications

  Bernoulli - Applications

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  Applications of Bernoulli equation for estimating: flow in siphon, flow direction, flow through branching pipes, nozzle jets, time required for draining.

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  Estimation of flow through pipelines based on Bernoulli equation, using venturi meter, orifice meter, pitot tube, rota meter. Coefficient of discharge.

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• Select section Shear Stress on Surfaces

  Shear Stress on Surfaces

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• Select section Boundary Layer Flow

  Boundary Layer Flow

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• Select section Friction

  Friction

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  Laminar and turbulent flows. Shear stress, friction factor - Darcy, Fanning, Pressure drop due to friction. Average velocity from velocity profile Flow through non-circular pipes - hydraulic radius, equivalent diameter. Fitting loss coefficient. 

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  Differential Equations of Fluid Flow

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  Three dimensional flow flow representation in vector form, components of velocity vector, acceleration - convective and temporal. Equation of continuity - compressible and incompressible flows. Irrotational flow. Stream function - stream line. Velocity potential.

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