This is an advanced course in Fluid Mechanics. The subject Fluid Mechanics has a wide scope and is of prime importance in several fields of engineering and science. Present course emphasizes the fundamental underlying fluid mechanical principles and application of those principles to solve real life problems. Special attention is given towards deriving all the governing equations starting from the fundamental principle. There is a well balanced coverage of physical concepts, mathematical operations along with examples and exercise problems of practical importance. After completion of the course, the students will have a strong fundamental understanding of the basic principles of Fluid Mechanics and will be able to apply the basic principles to analyze fluid mechanical systems.
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
Mechanical
Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Mining Engineering
Atmospheric and Ocean Engineering
Physics
PRE-REQUISITES:
Basic knowledge of
Mathematics and Fluid Mechanics
CORE/ELECTIVE:Core
UG/PG :UG & PG
INDUSTRY SUPPORT :
Oil Companies (IOCL,
SHELL, BPCL and others)
Automobile and Aviation companies (GE, AIRBUS
TATA
Motors and others)
5098 students have enrolled already!!
COURSE INSTRUCTOR
Suman Chakraborty is a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India, and Indian National Academy of Engineering Chair Professor. He is also currently the Head, School of Medical Science and Technology at IIT Kharagpur. He has offered a significant number of video courses through the NPTEL programme. These courses include: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluids Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Microfluidics. He has also taught in an online programme (under NMEICT) titled “Talk to 10 Thousand Teachers”. He has also taught live modular courses in the International Summer Winter Term and Knowledge Dissemination Programme. He has research interests in the area of Microfluidics and Micro/Nano scale transport processes, including their theoretical, computational, and experimental modeling, encompassing the underlying fundamentals as well as bio-medical, bio-technological, chip cooling, and energy related applications. As recognition of his research, he has been awarded the Santi Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in the year 2013. He has also been elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (FNA), Indian National Academy of Science (FNASc), Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), recipient of the Indo-US Research Fellowship, Scopus Young Scientist Award for high citation of his research in scientific/technical Journals, and Young Scientist/ Young Engineer Awards from various National Academies of Science and Engineering. He has further been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and a Visiting Professor at the Stanford University. He has 350+ International Journal publications.
COURSE LAYOUT :
Week 1: Brief recapitulation of some preliminary concepts of Fluid Mechanics : Fluid Kinematics
Week 2: Brief recapitulation of some preliminary concepts of Fluid Mechanics: Dynamics of Inviscid Flows and Reynolds Transport Theorem
Week 3: Dynamics of viscous flows - Derivation of Navier-Stokes equation
Week 4: Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation-Steady Flows
Week 5: Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation – Steady Flows (contd) and Practical Applications
Week 6: Some exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation-Unsteady Flows, Introduction to Turbulence
Week 7: Introduction to turbulence (contd.), Boundary Layer theory
Week 8: Boundary Layer theory (contd.)
Week 9: Boundary Layer theory (contd.), Potential flow and flow past immersed bodies
Week 10:Potential flow and flow past immersed bodies (contd.)
Week 11:Compressible flows
Week 12: Compressible flows (contd.)
REFERENCES:
1. Fluid Mechanics: by Pijush K. Kundu, Ira M. Cohen, David R Dowling, Academic Press
2. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Machines: by S. K. Som, Gautam Biswas and Suman Chakraborty, McGraw-Hill Education
3. Fluid Mechanics: by F. M White, McGraw-Hill Education
4. Introduction to Fluid Mechanics by R. Fox and A. MacDonald, John Wiley and Sons
CERTIFICATION EXAM:
The exam is optional for a fee.
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Date and Time of Exams: April 28 (Saturday) and April 29 (Sunday) : Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
Exam for this course will be available in one session on both 28 and 29 April.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.
CERTIFICATE:
Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of 12 weeks course: Best 8 out of 12 assignments
E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40%
final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup. It
will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
