Fluid Mechanics And MachineryThis Book Presents A Thorough And Comprehensive Treatment Of Both The Basic As Well As The More Advanced Concepts In Fluid Mechanics. The Entire Range Of Topics Comprising Fluid Mechanics Has Been Systematically Organised And The Various Concepts Are Clearly Explained With The Help Of Several Solved Examples.Apart From The Fundamental Concepts, The Book Also Explains Fluid Dynamics, Flow Measurement, Turbulent And Open Channel Flows And Dimensional And Model Analysis. Boundary Layer Flows And Compressible Fluid Flows Have Been Suitably Highlighted.Turbines, Pumps And Other Hydraulic Systems Including Circuits, Valves, Motors And Ram Have Also Been Explained. The Book Provides 225 Fully Worked Out Examples And More Than 1600 Questions Including Numerical Problems And Objective Questions. The Book Would Serve As An Exhaustive Text For Both Undergraduate And Post- Graduate Students Of Mechanical, Civil And Chemical Engineering. Amie And Competitive Examination Candidates As Well As Practising Engineers Would Also Find This Book Very Useful. |
Contents
Properties of Fluids 119 | 1 |
Compressible Fluid Flow | 2 |
Fluid Statics 2062 | 20 |
Fluid Kinematics | 63 |
3656 | 74 |
13 | 76 |
Terms of Cylindrical Polar Coordinates | 90 |
Analytic Functions | 115 |
Objective Questions | 439 |
Answers | 445 |
3 | 451 |
12 | 479 |
Flow through Open Channels | 520 |
Specific Energy in Open Channel Flow | 526 |
Critical Flow and Control Sections | 532 |
Uniform Flow in Open Channels | 540 |
Fluid Dynamics | 136 |
Importance of Momentum Equation | 155 |
Curved Path | 168 |
Flow Measurement 197276 | 197 |
17 | 247 |
Flow through Pipes | 274 |
Viscous Flows 332365 | 332 |
Boundary Layer Flows 366416 | 366 |
12 | 374 |
Turbulent Flows | 417 |
Turbulent Flow near Solid Boundaries | 424 |
Pipeline Resistance | 431 |
1 | 622 |
Hydraulic Turbines | 662 |
21 | 720 |
Pumps | 755 |
14 | 786 |
Objective Questions | 805 |
Short Answer Questions | 812 |
General Problems | 818 |
Hydraulic Systems | 830 |
Unit Conversion Ratios | 866 |
Bibliography | 874 |
Common terms and phrases
A₁ acceleration aerofoil angle average velocity Bernoulli's equation body boundary layer C₁ cm diameter coefficient compressible constant Couette flow cross-section cylinder density differential direction of flow discharge drag energy Euler's equation Example flownet fluid particles free surface friction factor gauge h₁ H₂ head loss Hence horizontal incompressible irrotational kg/m³ laminar flow length liquid loss of head m³/s Mach number manometer mass rate maximum metacentric height momentum motion mouthpiece N/m² Navier-Stokes equations normal nozzle orifice P₁ P₂ piezometer pipe pitot tube plane pressure gradient rate of flow Reynolds number rotation roughness shear stress shown in Fig Solution stagnation point steady stream function stream line tank thickness tion turbulent flow two-dimensional uniform flow V₁ valve velocity distribution velocity potential vena-contracta venturi meter vertical viscosity weir zero ди ди др дх ду