Basics of Mechanical Engineering - 3

Week 1: 
Module 1 : Fluids, vacuum, continuum, no-slip condition
Module 2 : Properties of fluid: physical and thermal, ideal fluid, effect of temperature on fluids
Module 3 : Stream line, streak line, path line, time line, velocity potential, stream function
Module 4 : Newtonian v/s non-Newtonian fluids, compressible v/s incompressible fluids

Week 2: 
Module 1 : Lagrangian and Eulerian concepts, control volume and control surface
Module 2 : Hydrostatic law, Pascal law, Bernoulli’s theorem
Module 3 : Laminar and turbulent flow, Vortex, vorticity, and vorticity equations
Module 4 : Reynolds transport theorem

Week 3: 
Module 1 : Navier Stokes equation, Couette flow, Hagen Poiseuille flow
Module 2 : Boundary layer, Prandtl number
Module 3 : Flux, flow rate, non-dimensional numbers, flow measurement devices
Module 4 : Potential flow, flow separation

Week 4: 
Module 1 : Aerodynamics, lift and drag, airfoil theory
Module 2 : Turbine, pump
Module 3 : Compressor
Module 4 : Nozzle, throttling valves, mixing chambers

Week 5: 
Module 1 : Kinetic theory of gas
Module 2 : State and equilibrium
Module 3 : Process, cycle, reversibility of a process
Module 4 : Work, energy, first law of thermodynamics, potential energy, kinetic energy

Week 6: 
Module 1 : Temperature, heat, Zeroth law of thermodynamics, thermometry
Module 2 : Second law of thermodynamics, enthalpy, exergy, third law of thermodynamics
Module 3 : Perpetual motion machines, heat engine, refrigerator, coefficient of performance
Module 4 : Entropy, entropy generation, third law of thermodynamics

Week 7: 
Module 1 : Gas power cycles
Module 2 : Vapor power cycles
Module 3 : Refrigeration cycles
Module 4 : Reheating and regeneration, jet propulsion cycles

Week 8: 
Module 1 : Pure substances and their properties
Module 2 : Saturation, reference states and values, property tables
Module 3 : Dry bulb temperature, wet bulb temperature,
Module 4 : Phase change in fluids, multiphase flows

Week 9: 
Module 1 : Conduction and radiation
Module 2 : Convection 
Module 3 : Heat exchangers, heat transfer
Module 4 : Boiling and condensation, mass transfer

Week 10: 
Module 1 : Power plants 
Module 2 : IC engines, SI and CI engines
Module 3 : Electric vehicle & its operation compared to IC engine
Module 4 : Computational fluid dynamics

Week 11: 
Module 1 : Optimality, zero of a problem, problem modelling, constraints, maxima, minima, penalty and penalty functions
Module 2 : Linear programming problem, duality, sensitivity analysis
Module 3 : Graphical solution, simplex method
Module 4 : Taylor’s theorem and approximations, direction vector

Week 12: 
Module 1 : Steepest descent method, golden search method and other advanced methods
Module 2 : Transportation, assignment, and network problems
Module 3 : Genetic algorithm, Particle Swarm optimization, Ant colony optimization
Module 4 : Use of solvers in Excel and Matlab

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.