Fluid Mechanics

Courses Offered:

S.No. Graduate Programme Courses Semester

1.

UG

MELR13 - Fluid Mechanics laboratory

IV

2.

PG

Nil

Nil

 

List of Experiments:

S. No UG Experiments(subject code)

1.

Determination of coefficient of discharge of an orifice meter

2.

Determination of coefficient of discharge of the Venturi meter

3.

Determination of Metacentric height of a floating body

4.

Determination of Darcy friction factor (f) for the given pipe

5.

Determination of loss coefficient for bends and elbows in a pipeline

6.

Determination of coefficient of discharge of Rectangular and V –Notch

7.

Determination of performance characteristics of Francis Turbine

8.

Determination of performance characteristics of gear oil pump

9.

Determination of performance characteristics of submersible pump

10.

Determination of performance characteristics of jet pump

11.

Determination of performance characteristics of reciprocating pump

12.

Study on Bernoulli’s principle

 

S. No PG Experiments(Subject code)

   1.

NIL

 

Laboratory Equipments:

S.No. List of Equipments Cost of each equipment (Lakhs)
  1.  

Wind Tunnel

3,72,750

  1.  

Submersible pump test rig

97,000

  1.  

Centrifugal pump test rig

96,000

  1.  

Reciprocating pump test rig

91,245

  1.  

Gear Oil pump test rig

92,610

  1.  

Jet Pump test rig

91,245

  1.  

Demonstration of Francis Turbine

EUR 4509.45

  1.  

Osborne Reynolds Demonstrator

1,98,874

  1.  

Bernoulli’s principle demonstrator

2,12,109

  1.  

Flow through helical coil

89,900

  1.  

Metacentric Height Apparatus

33,600

  1.  

Determination of Minor Losses

65,835.00

  1.  

Venturi, orifice and water meter

92,085

  1.  

Pipe friction apparatus

61,110

  1.  

Orifice and Mouthpiece tank apparatus

78,204

  1.  

Determination of discharge coefficient of notch and weirs

81,480

 

 

Lab in Charge : Dr. S. Suresh

Designation   : Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National Institute of Technology,

Tiruchirappalli – 620 015,

Tamil Nadu.

 

Phone : 98424 83638

Mail Id : ssuresh@nitt.edu