Fluid Mechanics Concepts

   Wednesday, July 22, 2020   

Fluid Mechanics Concepts include all Definitions, Laws, Diagrams, Rules, Examples, Results etc.

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Units of Pressure | Thrust | Relationship between thrust and pressure | Differences Between Solids and Liquids | Properties of fluids | Characteristics of liquid pressure | Pressure of liquid depends on gravitational force | Pressure of liquid on walls of container | Pressure on the walls of container | Properties of liquid pressure | Factors affecting a pressure in a liquid | Characteristics of liquid pressure

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Measurement of Air Pressure | Measurement of atmospheric pressure in terms of height of Mercury Column | Units of pressure | Law of atmosphere | Standard Atmospheric Pressure | Experimental demonstration of atmospheric pressure | Siphon Tube | Problem on Siphon Mechanism | Pressure variation with altitude | Atmospheric pressure

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Gauge and barometric Pressure | Principle of Manometer and Example | Units of density | Relative Density definition | Relative Density | Uses of relative density | Define and explain hydrostatic paradox | Hydraulic press | Hydraulic jack | Hydraulic brake

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Problems on Pascal's law | Rise of liquid column in capillary tube in different geometries | Pressure Gauge | Variation of Pressure with Height in a static fluid of constant density | Force due to hydrostatic pressure on boundaries containing fluids | Torque due to hydrostatic pressure on boundaries containing fluids | Variation of Pressure with height in a fluid with varying density | Variation of height of liquid in a tank with hole at the bottom | Variation of pressure with height in a fluid

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Inferring pressure at a point from density of streamlines | Direction of force on a surface in a static fluid | Problem on U-tube containing immisible liquids | Force balance equation in static fluids | Hollow sphere immersed in liquids | Objects immersed in multiple Immiscible static fluids

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Torque due to buoyant force | Apparent weight of floating body | Buoyant Force on an immersed object in terms of specific gravity | Centre of Buoyancy | Center of Gravity and Center of Buoyancy | Torque due to buoyant force when centre of buoyancy is different from the center of mass

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Proof of Archimedes Principle | Hydrometer- Principle of working | Hydrometer- Construction | Battery hydrometer | Lactometer | Archimedes principle in accelerated frame | Explanation of Physical situations using Archimedes Principle | Principle of Floatation

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Experimental verification of principle of floatation | Applications of Principle of Floatation | Submerged volume | Experimental determination of density of immiscible solid | Measuring the density of a liquid | Measuring the density of a rectangular solid block | Relationship between volume submerged, density of fluid and density of object | Archimedes' principle combined with volume expansion | Problem on density | Dynamic LIft

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Deriving Dynamic Lift using Bernoulli's Equation | Mercury in a barometer | Fortin barometer | Aneroid Baromter | Weather forecast with barometer | Different heads in Bernoulli's equation | Conditions for applicability of Bernoullis equation | Bernoulli's Equation | Use of Bernoulli's equation to explain physical situations | Application of Bernoulli's equation in open atmosphere

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Use of Bernoulli's equation in rotating frame | Magnus Effect | Limitations of Bernoulli's principle | Principle and Working of aspirator pump | Altimeter | Working of pumps | Principle and Working of Pitot tube | Principle and Working of Atomizer 

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Principle and Working of Filter Pump | Wind Storms and Cyclones | Working of bunsen burner on the bernoulli's principle | Calculate of Velocity of efflux using Bernoulli's equation | Torricelli's Law and Application | Reaction force due to velocity of efflux | Problem on reaction force due to velocity of efflux on a vessel free to move | Principle and Working of Venturimeter | Application of Bernoulli's equation | Combined use of Bernoulli's equation and Continuity Equation

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Incompressible Fluid and Example of Incompressible Fluid Flow | Conditions of steady flow and turbulent flow | Streamline and its properties | Continuity Equation | Problems based on continuity equation | Real life examples of viscosity | Reynold's Number and its use to identify nature of flow | Terminal Velocity | Understanding terminal velocity | Variation of pressure in a fluid in a rotating frame

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Shape of free surface of fluid in a rotating frame | Irrotational Flow | Variation of Pressure in a fluid with constant density in a vertically accelerated frame | Vertical and Horizontal Variation of Pressure in a fluid accelerated horizontally | Determining inclination of free surface of a fluid in a uniformly accelerated frame in the horizontal direction | Introduction to viscosity | Viscous Force | Velocity Gradient | Coefficient of Viscosity | Velocity profile of fluid flowing in a pipe

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Viscous Force on a plate moving with linear velocity | Find viscous force on a surface for a given velocity profile | Assumptions involved in Stoke’s Law: | Stoke's Law | Problem based on terminal velocity | Example of Terminal Velocity | Derivation of terminal velocity | Understanding terminal velocity | Terminal Velocity | Problem based on Stoke's law

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Poiseuille's Equation | Determination of coefficient of viscosity of water by Poiseuille's flow method | Dimensional Analysis on Stoke's law | Physical examples of surface tension | Surface Tension | Measuring surface tension | Energy per unit area with surface tension per unit length | Minimizing Surface Energy | Examples of Surface Tension | Physical Examples of Surface Tension

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Types of intermolecular Forces and range of influence | Cohesive and Adhesive Forces | Examples of cohesive and adhesive forces | Effect of temperature in surface tension | Variation of surface tension with temperature | Detergent action using surface tension | Formation of droplets | Surface Energy of a liquid drop and work done in creating it | Change in surface energy of a block with changing total surface area | Finding excess pressure in a liquid drop

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Excess pressure inside a soap bubble | Problem on surface tension | Understand interaction of molecules in bulk of liquid and on surface | Surface Energy and its explanation at molecular level | Shape of liquid drop | Wetting and nonwetting liquids | Use of relation of surface energy with heat of vaporization | Weight correction of liquid in meniscus and rise in capillary tube | Surface energy and its units | Angle of contact

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Shape of liquid drop based on surface tension | Meniscus of a liquid | Fluid flowing in a horizontal capillary | Surface tension of water using capillary rise method | Capillarity and its Physical Example | Problems on contact angle | Rise in capillary tube using force balance | Fall in capillary tube | Shape of interface in a capillary tube of insufficient length