Viscous Fluid Flow

By Prof. Amaresh Dalal | IIT Guwahati

Learners enrolled: 416

Viscous fluid flow covers the fundamentals of fluid mechanics from an advanced point of view. This course focusses largely on viscous flows in the incompressible regime. This course will cover the derivation of Navier-Stokes equations, exact solutions for simplified configurations, creeping flows , Stokes’s first and second problems, laminar boundary layers, wall-bounded and free-shear boundaries and hydrodynamic stability with an introduction to turbulence. The course will give the audience physical insights through the use of mathematical tools for solving real-flow problems. The course will help students, faculty members, and researchers in the field to get in-depth understanding of concepts in viscous fluid flow.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Postgraduate and undergraduate students of Mechanical Engineering and similar branches;
Faculty members associated with Mechanical Engineering;
Practicing engineers associated with fluid and thermal industries.

PREREQUISITES : No specific pre-requisite. Fundamental knowledge of Fluid Mechanics should be sufficient.

INDUSTRIES SUPPORT : BHEL, NTPC, Eaton

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Mechanical Engineering Computational Thermo Fluids
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	23 Jan 2023
End Date :	14 Apr 2023
Enrollment Ends :	06 Feb 2023
Exam Registration Ends :	17 Mar 2023
Exam Date :	30 Apr 2023 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Steady One-dimensional Rectilinear Flows

Week 3: Steady Axisymmetric Flows

Week 4: Transient One-dimensional Unidirectional Flows

Week 5: Steady, Two-dimensional Rectilinear Flows

Week 6: Lubrication Theory

Week 7: Laminar Boundary Layers - I

Week 8: Laminar Boundary Layers - II

Week 9: Laminar Free Shear Flows

Week 10: Stability Theory

Week 11: Turbulent Flows - I

Week 12: Turbulent Flows - II

Books and references

1. White, F. M., Viscous Fluid Flow, McGraw-Hill, 2011.

2. Papanastasiou, T. C., Georgiou, G. C., and Alexandrou, A. N., Viscous Fluid Flow, CRC Press, 2000.

3. Sherman F. S., Viscous Flow, McGraw-Hill College, 1990.

4. Ockendon H., and Ockendon J.R., Viscous Flow, Cambridge University Press, 1995.

5. Schlichting, H., and Gersten, K., Boundary Layer Theory, Springer- Verlag, 2000.

Instructor bio

Prof. Amaresh Dalal

IIT Guwahati

Dr. Amaresh Dalal is currently Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2009 and he was Post-doctoral Research Associate at Purdue University from Sep 2008 - Dec 2009. He has research interests in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Finite Volume Methods and Unstructured Grid Techniques, Multiphase Flows. Dr. Dalal is now profoundly involved in developing a general purpose, versatile and robust computational fluid dynamics solver over hybrid unstructured grid which can solve a wide range of real-life fluid flow, heat transfer, and problems involving transport phenomena over complex geometries. He received Prof KN Seetharamu Medal and Prize for the Best Young Researcher in Heat Transfer-2017 from Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 30 April 2023 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
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. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

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 Guwahati .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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