Subject Code: ME6L101
Prerequisites: None 		Name: Advanced Fluid Dynamics L – T – P : 3 – 1 – 0 Credits: 4
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.

Recommended Books:
  1. Incompressible Flow 3ed - R. L. Panton – Wiley
  2. Viscous Fluid Flow 3ed - F. M. White - McGraw-Hill
  3. Boundary Layer Theory 8 Ed - H. Schlichting& K. Gersten – Springer
  4. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics – G. K. Batchelor – Cambridge University Press
  5. Turbulent Flows – S. B. Pope – Cambridge
  6. Vectors, Tensors and the Basic Equations of Fluid Mechanics – Rutherford Aris - Dover
  7. Fluid Mechanics with Multimedia DVD, 4ed -  Pijush K. Kundu, Ira M. Cohen – AP / Elsevier
  8. Fundamentals of Fluid Mechanics 6ed -  Bruce R. Munson, Donald F. Young, Theodore H. Okiishi, Wade W. Huebsch - Wiley
  9. Turbulence, An Introduction for Scientists and Engineers – P. A. Davidson – Oxford
  10. The Structure of Turbulent Shear Flows – A. A. Townsend