GATE 2019 Syllabus for Fluid Mechanics
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About Fluid Mechanics
The study of fluids is primarily called Fluid Mechanics which is a branch of physics. While dealing with fluid problems, different measurements like pressure, hydrostatic forces are very much essential. It can be further subdivided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest, and fluid dynamics, the study of fluids in motion. This subject contains marks weightage of 6 to 7 in GATE Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering.
Syllabus of Fluid Mechanics- GATE 2019
Flow and Fluid Properties
Incompressible and compressible flows, differences between laminar and turbulent flows; Viscosity, the relationship between stress and strain rate for Newtonian fluids, Hydrostatics: Buoyancy, manometry, forces on submerged bodies;
Kinematics
The concept of local and convective accelerations, Eulerian and Lagrangian description of fluids motion, steady and unsteady flows;
Integral Analysis
Control volume analysis for mass, momentum and energy.
Differential Analysis
Differential equations of mass and momentum for incompressible flows: the inviscid concept of fluid rotation, vorticity, stream function, Exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation for Couette Flow and Poiseuille flow; – Euler equation and viscous flows – Navier-Stokes equations;
Inviscid Flows
Elementary plane flows – uniform flow, source; Bernoulli’s equation – assumptions and applications, potential function, sink and doublet and their superposition for potential flow past simple geometries;
Dimensional Analysis
The concept of geometric, kinematic and dynamic similarity, Reynolds number, Froude number and Mach number; some common non-dimensional parameters and their physical significance:
Internal Flows
Fully developed pipe flow, friction factor and Darcy-Weisbach relation; empirical relations for laminar and turbulent flows;
Prandtl boundary layer equations
Drag and lift forces.Concept and assumptions, the qualitative idea of boundary layer and separation, streamlined and bluff bodies, Flow measurements: Basic ideas of flow measurement using venturimeter, pitot-static tube and orifice plate;
Exam Pattern for GATE 2019
Section | Question No | No of Questions | Marks per Question | Total Marks |
General Aptitude | 1 to 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 |
6 to 10 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |
Technical & Engineering | 1 to 25 | 25 | 1 | 25 |
Mathematics | 26 to 55 | 30 | 2 | 60 |
Total Questions: 65
Total Marks: 100
Total Duration : 3 hours
Technical Section: 70 marks
General Aptitude: 15 marks
Engineering Mathematics: 15 marks
25 marks to 40 marks will be allotted to Numerical Answer Type Questions
Reference Books for Fluid Mechanics- GATE 2019
- An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics by G. K. Batchelor
- Physical Fluid Dynamics by D. J. Tritton
- Fluid Mechanics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
- Turbulence in Fluids (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications) by Marcel Lesieur
- Analytical Methods for Problems of Molecular Transport (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications) by I.N. Ivchenko, S.K. Loyalka, and R.V. Tompson
- A Textbook of Fluid Mechanics by Suparna Mukhopadhyay
- An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics by Stephen Childress
- An Introduction to the Mechanics of Fluids by Edwin H. Barton
- Complex Fluids: The Physics of Emulsions by M.E. Cates
- Basics of Fluid Mechanics by Genick Bar–Meir
- Fundamentals of Compressible Fluid Mechanics by Genick Bar–Meir
- Computational Fluid Mechanics by Abdulnaser Sayma
- Microfluidics by Philippe Marmottant
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: Technologies and Applications by Igor V. Minin, Oleg V. Minin
- Statistical Mechanics of Two Dimensional and Geophysical Flows by Freddy Bouchet, Antoine Venaille
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