SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Subject: SMEX1005 FLUID MECHANICS AND MACHINERY

Syllabus completed up to 30.8.2015

UNIT III FLOW THROUGH ORIFICES, LAMINAR AND TURBULENT FLOW.

Flow through orifices:

Classification

Hydraulic co-efficient – Flow through rectangular orifice

Notches and weirs.

Laminar and Turbulent flow: Reynolds experiment –

Major and minor losses in pipes – Darcy weisbach’s equation, chezy’s formula –

Pipes in series and

Pipes in parallel –

Total energy line – hydraulic gradient line – Equivalent pipe

UNIT IV PUMPS.

Centrifugal Pumps: Definition –

Operations –

Reciprocating Pumps: Operation

To be completed:

Velocity Triangles –

Performance curves – Cavitations –

Multistaging of Centrifugal pumps

Slip – indicator Diagram

Separation – Air vessels.