UNIT 1

FLUID MECHANICS AND MACHINERY:

INTRODUCTION

Engineering theory

Fluid Properties

Surface Tension and Capillary Action:

Mercury in a narrow glass tube. In fact, the surfaces marked in red are not in
adhesion with the glass tube.

Water in a narrow glass tube.

More about surface tension:

... If the length of the pin is 'special character' and the forcec acting is 2y,
then the upward component of this force is 'the formula'. The number '2' denotes
the surface tension that acts on both sides of the pin as shown.

UNIT 2

STREAM LINES, PATH LINES AND STREAK LINES

Imagine a bundle of neighbouring... This passage is called Stream-tube.

UNIT 3

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UNIT 4

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UNIT 5

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UNIT 6

TURBINES CLASSIFICATION

Spiral-casing:

First blurb: The total head of this point.... Here Z is the height of teh turbine
eye from the tail race

Third blurb: The total head of the tail race (outlet of the draft tube) is given
by:

UNIT 7

Centrifugal Pumps:

PLOT 1: This plot shows the relationship between Flow rate and head developed at a
given RPM.
PLOT 2: This plot shows the relationship between Flow rate and head developed at a
given RPM.

Reciprocating Pumps:

Positive displacement machines:

.... This decreases the pressure inside the lungs.

.. the space around the lungs decreases. This squeezes the lungs to exhale the air.