Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery lab

The Fluid Mechanics laboratory is designed to examine the properties of fluids and to conduct experiments involving both incompressible and compressible flow. Facilities are available for investigating the fundamentals of fluid statics as well as kinematics and kinetics of fluid flow to enhance the hands-on experience of our students. It is an introductory course where flow behavior, fluid forces and analysis tools are introduced. The goals of the experiments include determination of forces generated when fluid flow takes place over a solid object, applications of the control volume approach, flow measurements, Major and minor losses in the flow and to determine the state of flow using Reylod’s experiment.

LIST OF EQUIPMENTS

S.No Name of Equipment
1 Orifice and Mouthpiece Apparatus
2 Venturi meter and Orifice meter Apparatus
3 Notches Apparatus
4 Pipe Friction Apparatus
5 Bernoulli’s Apparatus
6 Losses in piping System
7 Impact of Jet on vanes
8 Pelton Wheel Turbine
9 Kaplan Turbine
10 Francis Turbine
11 Centrifugal Pump Test Rig
12 Hydrauic Jump