Experiments In Fluid Mechanics

Description:

This Second Edition contains 18 experiments in Fluid Mechanics, selected from the prescribed curriculum of various universities and institutes. The laboratory work in Fluid Mechanics is undertaken by the undergraduate engineering students of several branches such as civil, mechanical, production, aerospace, chemical, biotechnology, electrical (wherever prescribed), and instrumentation and control (wherever prescribed).

The first part of the book allows the students to review the fundamental theory before stepping into the laboratory environment. The second part enumerates the experimental set-ups, and provides a concluding discussion of each experiment. Appendix A gives various questions based on each experiment to test the student’s understanding of the learned material. Appendix B gives data on physical properties of water, air and some commonly used fluids in the laboratory, and also lists other standard data to be used in various experiments.

CONTENTS:

Preface
PART I: THEORY OF FLUID MECHANICS
Fluid Mechanics: An Introduction
PART II: EXPERIMENTS
Experiment 1. Flow Through a Variable Duct Area—Bernoulli’s Experiment
Experiment 2. Calibration of Venturimeter
Experiment 3. Calibration of Orificemeter
Experiment 4. Determination of Friction Factor for Pipes of Different Materials
Experiment 5. Determination of Loss coefficients for Pipe Fittings
Experiment 6. Verification of Momentum Equation
Experiment 7. Calibration of V-notch
Experiment 8. Determination of Hydrostatic Force on a Vertically Submerged Surface
Experiment 9. Determination of Hydraulic Coefficients of Orifice
Experiment 10. Determination of Coefficient of Discharge of Circular Orifice Using Variable Head Method
Experiment 11. Determination of Metacentric Height
Experiment 12. Drawing of Flow Net: Hele-Shaw Method and Electrical Analogy Method
Experiment 13. Calibration of Rotameter
Experiment 14. Transition of Flow—Reynolds Experiment
Experiment 15. Free Vortex Flow
Experiment 16. Forced Vortex Flow
Experiment 17. Centrifugal Pump Test Rig
Experiment 18. Flow in a Pipe Bend
Appendix A
Appendix B