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JAWAHARLAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

MANGALAM P.O, LAKKIDI, PALAKKAD
THIRD SEMESTER MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ME09 303 FLUID MECHANICS
PART-A
(2Marks)
1. What do you mean by kinematic viscosity? How it is differ from dynamic viscosity?
2. What is the classification of fluids?
3. What is capillarity? Write an expression for capillary rise and capillary fall.
4. What is pressure?
5. What is a piezometer?
6. Explain the term centre of pressure.
7. What do you mean by Buoyancy?
8. What do you mean by meta-centre? What is meta-centric height?
9. What are the assumptions made in deriving Bernoullis equation?
10. Compare notches and weirs.
11. Which are the devices used to find out the discharge through pipes ?
12. Compare rectangular and triangular notches.
13. Write the classification of notches.
14. Compare stream lines and streak lines.
15. What is a stream tube?
16. Write down the significance of Reynolds number.
17. What are the minor losses in pipes?
18. Compare laminar and turbulent flows
19. What do you mean by skin friction drag?
20. Explain the terms lift and drag.
21. Explain the scales of turbulence.
PART-B
(5Marks)
1. Calculate the specific weight, density and specific gravity of one litres of a liquid which
weighs 7 N?
2. State and explain Pascals law.
3. Explain Newtowns law of viscosity.
4. Explain the terms absolute pressure, gauge pressure and vacuum pressure.
5. Explain local and convective accelerations.
6. Show that equipotential lines are orthogonal to stream lines.

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7. A rectangular pontoon is 5 m long, 3 m wide and 1.20 m high, the depth of immersion of the
pontoon is 0.80 m in sea water. If the centre of gravity is 0.6 m above the bottom of the
pontoon, determine metacentric height. The density of sea water is 1025 kg/m3.
8. Explain system and control volume approaches.
9. A pipe of 450 mm in diameter branches in to two pipes of diameter 300mm and 200mm
respectively. The average velocity of 450 mm pipe is 3 m/s, find
I) The discharge through 450 mm pipe.
II) Velocity in 200 mm diameter pipe if the average velocity of 300 mm diameter pipe
is2.5 m/s.
10. Explain velocity potential function, stream function, equipotential line and line of constant
stream function.
11. A horizontal venturimeter with inlet diameter 30 cm and throat diameter 15 cm is used to
measure the flow of oil of specific gravity 0.8.The discharge of oil through venturimeter is 50
l/s; find the reading of the oil mercury differential manometer. Take coefficient of discharge
as 0.98.
12. A rectangular channel 2.0 m wide has a discharge of 250 litres per second, which is
measured by a right- angled V-notch weir. Find the apex of the notch from the bed of the
channel if the maximum depth of water is not exceeding 1.3m. take c
d
=0.62
13. Explain boundary layer separation with a neat sketch and what are the conditions for
boundary layer separation to occur in a curved surface?
14. The velocity potential function () is given by an expression.
=-

-
2
+

+
2
i) Find the velocity in X and Y direction.
ii) Show that represents a possible case of flow.
15. Explain source and sink flow.
16. Explain laminar boundary layer and turbulent boundary layer.
17. Explain boundary layer separation.
18. Explain Prandtl mixing length concept.
19. Explain the scales of turbulence.
20. What is compressibility? How it is related to bulk modulus.
21. Write the comparison between orifice and mouth piece.


PART-C
(10Marks)
1. The dynamic viscosity of oil, used for lubrication between a shaft and a sleeve is 6 poise; the
shaft is of diameter 0.4 m and rotates at 190 r.p.m. Calculate the power lost in the bearing
for a sleeve length of 90 mm. The thickness of the oil film is 1.5 mm
2. A U-tube manometer is used to measure the pressure of water in a pipe line which is in
excess of atmospheric pressure. The right limp of the manometer contains mercury and is
opened to the atmosphere. The contact between water and mercury is in the left limb.
Determine the pressure of water in the main line, if the difference in level of mercury in the
limbs of the U- tube is 10 cm and the free surface of mercury is in level with the centre of

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pipe. If the pressure of water in pipeline is reduced to 9810 N/m
2
, calculate the difference in
the level of mercury. Sketch the arrangement s in both the cases.
3. Derive an expression for finding out the discharge through a venturimeter?
4. Derive an expression for discharge through a triangular notch.
5. Derive an expression for discharge through a rectangular notch.
6. Explain in detail about the devices used to measure the pressure of fluid through
pipes.
7. Derive an expression for discharge through an orifice meter.
8. State and explain general hydrostatic law.
9. An orifice meter with orifice diameter 15 cm is inserted in a pipe of 30 cm diameter. The
pressure difference measured by a mercury oil differential manometer on the two sides of
the orifice meter gives a reading of 50 cm of mercury. Find the rate of flow of oil of specific
gravity 0.9 when the coefficient of discharge of the meter is 0.64
10. Derive Eulers equation of motion for an incompressible steady flow of fluid.
11. Derive Bernoullis equation from Eulers equations of motion.
12. Derive an expression for head lost due to friction through pipes.(Darcys formula)
13. Derive Haygen Poiscille formula.
14. Derive an expression for displacement thickness, momentum thickness and energy
thickness.
15. Find the head lost due to friction a pipe of diameter 300 mm and length 50 m, through
which water is flowing at a velocity of 3 m/s using (a) Darcy formula (b) Chezys formula for
which C= 60.Take kinematic viscosity of water as 0.01 stoke.
16. Derive continuity equation in 3 dimensions?
17. For the velocity profile for laminar boundary layer flows given as u/U = 2(y/)- (y/) find
an expression for boundary layer thickness, shear stress, drag force and coefficient of drag?
(=delta)
18. A plate of 600 mm length and 400 mm wide is immersed in a fluid of specific gravity 0.9
and kinematic viscosity 1 stoke. The fluid is moving with a velocity of 6 m/s. Determine (a)
boundary layer thickness (b) shear stress at the end of the plate and (c) drag force on one
side of the plate
19. Derive Von-karman equation.