Subject Code: ME6L101 Subject Name: Name: Advanced Fluid Dynamics L-T-P: 3-1-0 Credit:  4
Pre-Requisite(s):  Fluid Mechanics
Introduction to Tensors & Tensors Equations. Concept of continuum and definition of a fluid. Body and surface forces, stress tensor, scalar and vector fields. Eulerian and Lagrangian description of flow. Motion of fluid element - translation, dilation, strain, rotation and vorticity. Strain rate & rotation rate tensors. Continuity equation, stream function and velocity potential. Transport theorems, constitutive equations, Derivation of Navier-Stokes equations for compressible flow, Newtonian Fluid & Constant Property Incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. Exact solutions of Navier Stokes equations. Slow viscous flow: Stokes and Oseen's approximation. Theory of hydrodynamic lubrication. Boundary layers: Exact, Approximate & Numerical solutions. Free Shear Flows – Jets & Wakes. Introduction to Turbulent Flow – Reynolds Stress, Turbulent Viscosity Hypothesis.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Panton R.L., Incompressible Flow, Wiley.
  2. White F.M., Viscous Fluid Flow, McGraw-Hill.
  3. Schlichting H., and Gersen K., Boundary Layer Theory, Springer.
  4. Batchelor G.K., An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge University Press.
  5. Pope S.B., Turbulent Flows, Cambridge University Press
  6. Aris R., Vectors, Tensors and the Basic Equations of Fluid Mechanics, Dover Publications.
  7. Kundu P.K., and Cohen I.M., Fluid Mechanics with Multimedia DVD, AP / Elsevier.
  8. Munson B.R., Young D.F., Okiishi T.H., and Huebsch W.W., Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics Wiley.
  9. Davidson P.A., Turbulence, An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers, Oxford.
  10. Townsend A.A., The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flows, Cambridge University Press.