Fluid Mechanics

This book familiarizes the students to different domains of fluid Mechanics. This book includes fundamentals of fluid mechanics in total of six units as properties of fluids, fluid statics, buoyancy and flotation, fluid kinematics, fluid dynamics and dimensional analysis. Main purpose of this book is to help under graduate civil engineering students to understand and apply the basics of fluid mechanics to applications in engineering problems. The content of this book is aligned with the model curriculum of AICTE followed by concept of outcome-based education as per National Education Policy (NEP)2020.

Salient Features:

• Content of the book aligned with the mapping of Course Outcomes, Programs Outcomes and Unit Outcomes.
• In the beginning of each unit learning outcomes are listed to make the student understand what is expected out of him/her after completing that unit.
• Book provides lots of recent information, interesting facts, QR Code for E-resources, QR Code for use of ICT, projects, group discussion etc.
• Student and teacher centric subject materials included in book with balanced and chronological manner.
• Figures, tables, and software screen shots are inserted to improve clarity of the topics.
• Apart from essential information a ‘Know More’ section is also provided in each unit to extend the learning beyond syllabus.
• Short questions, objective questions and long answer exercises are given for practice of students after every chapter.
• Solved and unsolved problems including numerical examples are solved with systematic steps.