Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic Machinery:
Properties of fluid, density, specific weight, specific gravity, viscosity, surface tension, compressibility, capillarity, Pascal’s law, measurement of pressures, concept of buoyancy.
Concept of Reynold’s number, pressure, potential and kinetic energy of liquids, total energy, laws of conservation, mass, energy and momentum, velocity of liquids and discharge, Bernoulli’s equation and assumptions, venturi meters, pitot-tube, current meters.
Working principle & constructional details of centrifugal pump, efficiencies – manometric efficiency, volumetric efficiency, mechanical efficiency and overall efficiency, cavitation and its effect, working principle of jet & submersible pumps with line diagrams.