Seat No: ______________ Enrollment No: ____________________

PARUL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
B.Tech., Summer 2017-18 Examination
Semester: 4 Date: 21/05/2018
Subject Code: 03109252 Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Subject Name: Fluid Mechanics Total Marks: 60
Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
3. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
4. Start new question on new page.

Q.1 Objective Type Questions - (All are compulsory) (Each of one mark) (15)
1. A fluid is a substance that,
a) always expands until it fills any container b) is practically incompressible
c) cannot withstand any shear force d) obeys Newton’s law of viscosity
2. As per Newton’s law of viscosity, shear stress on the fluid element is ___________ proportional
to the rate of shear strain.
3. A submerged body is in stable equilibrium if its center of gravity is located ______ its center of
buoyancy.
4. SI Unit of dynamic viscosity is ______.
5. Pressure corresponding to 760 mm of mercury column is ______ Pa.
6. Venturimeter is used to measure_______.
7. Difference between stagnation and static pressure is called ________ pressure.
8. The point on the surface where the resultant hydrostatic force acts is called _______.
9. Metacentric height is of a floating body in stable equilibrium is always greater than______.
10. Streamline, pathline and streakline are virtually identical for _______flow.
11. For which type of flow, velocity potential always exists ?
12. For an irrotational flow, the value of vorticity at all the points of the domain is always_______.
13. Pitot-static tube is used to measure _______.
14. Write the expression of Reynold’s number.
15. For a laminar flow through the horizontal pipe, pressure gradient dp/dx is positive or negative?
Q.2 Answer the following questions. (Attempt any three) (15)
A) With neat sketch explain how to measure pressure of a fluid using simple U-tube manometer.
B) Define the following dimensionless numbers:
(i) Reynold’s Number, (ii) Froude Number, (iii)Euler’s Number,
(iv) Mach Number & (v) Weber Number.
C) Two horizontal plates are 10 mm apart and the space between them is filled with oil of viscosity
1.5 Ns/m2. Find the shear stress in the oil if the upper plate moves at 3 m/s.
D) Explain in brief about pipes in series and parallel.
Q.3 A) State and prove Pascal’s Law. (07)
B) Derive general form of continuity equation. (08)
OR
B) The velocity potential for a flow is given by ∅ = − . Verify that the flow is incompressible (08)
and then determine the stream function for the flow.
Q.4 A) Explain stability criteria for a submerged body. (07)
OR
A) Derive an expression of the velocity distribution for the viscous through a circular pipe. Also (07)
sketch the distribution of velocity and shear stress across the section of a pipe.
B) Discuss the capillary rise and capillary fall phenomenon in detail and derive their respective (08)
equations.

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