GATE Syllabus for Fluid Mechanics (XE-B)

There is good news for those candidates who are eagerly waiting for GATE Syllabus for Fluid Mechanics.  In this article we are furnishing the entire syllabus of GATE  Fluid Mechanics (XE-B).

Part 1: Flow and Fluid Properties

Relationship between stress and strain-rate for Newtonian fluids, viscosity, incompressible and compressible flows, Hydrostatics: Buoyancy, forces on submerged bodies, manometry, differences between laminar and turbulent flows

Part 2: Kinematics

Concept of local and convective accelerations, Eulerian and Lagrangian description of fluids motion, steady and unsteady flows

Part 3: Integral analysis

Control volume analysis for mass, momentum & energy

Part 4: Differential Analysis

Concept of fluid rotation, Differential equations of mass & momentum for incompressible flows: inviscid – Euler equation and viscous flows – Navier-Stokes equations, vorticity, exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation for Couette Flow and Poiseuille flow, stream function

Part 5: Inviscid flows

Potential function, Bernoulli’s equation – assumptions and applications, source, Elementary plane flows – uniform flow, sink and doublet and their superposition for potential flow past simple geometries

Part 6: Dimensional analysis

Kinematic and dynamic similarity, Concept of geometric, some common non-dimensional parameters and their physical significance: Froude number and Mach number, Reynolds number

Part 7: Internal flows

Empirical relations for laminar and turbulent flows: friction factor & Darcy-Weisbach relation, fully developed pipe flow

Part 8: Prandtl boundary layer equations

Qualitative idea of boundary layer and separation, drag and lift forces, Concept and assumptions, streamlined and bluff bodies, Flow measurements: Pitot – static tube and orifice plate, Basic ideas of flow measurement using venturimeter

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