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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kharagpur

    The Syllabus

    • Continuum hypothesis, Eulerian and Lagrangian descriptions, Differential analysis: mass balance, Forces on fluids, Normal and shear stresses,

    • Fluid statics - pressure distribution, Forces on submerged bodies (planar and curved), Buoyancy, Rigid body motion

    • Kinematic decomposition of flow motion, Vorticity and Circulation, Euler's equation

    • Stream function, Potential flow, Complex Velocity Potential, Elemental flows, Superposition of elemental flows, Stagnation point and Body Streamline

    • Extension of continuity and stream function to follow in porous media, Reynold’s Analogy.

    • System and control volume approaches, Reynolds transport theorem

    • Differential analysis: momentum balance; Navier-Stokes equation

    • Unidirectional flow, Viscous flow, Stokes law, Skin drag and pressure drag

    • Application of Bernoulli equation, Head loss in pipe flow, Moody diagram, pumps, Flow through converging and diverging nozzles, Flow measurement

    • Boundary layer theory, Blasius solution, Drag and lift forces

    • Similitude analysis, Compressible flows, Blowers and compressors

    • Transportation of fluids, pumps, selection and operation issues; Turbulence

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