Fluid Mechanics
 
																									Courses Offered:
	
		
			| S.No. | Graduate Programme | Courses | Semester | 
	
	
		
			| 1. | UG | MELR13 - Fluid Mechanics laboratory | IV | 
		
			| 2. | PG | Nil | Nil | 
	
 
List of Experiments:
	
		
			| S. No | UG Experiments(subject code) | 
	
	
		
			| 1. | Determination of coefficient of discharge of an orifice meter | 
		
			| 2. | Determination of coefficient of discharge of the Venturi meter | 
		
			| 3. | Determination of Metacentric height of a floating body | 
		
			| 4. | Determination of Darcy friction factor (f) for the given pipe | 
		
			| 5. | Determination of loss coefficient for bends and elbows in a pipeline | 
		
			| 6. | Determination of coefficient of discharge of Rectangular and V –Notch | 
		
			| 7. | Determination of performance characteristics of Francis Turbine | 
		
			| 8. | Determination of performance characteristics of gear oil pump | 
		
			| 9. | Determination of performance characteristics of submersible pump | 
		
			| 10. | Determination of performance characteristics of jet pump | 
		
			| 11. | Determination of performance characteristics of reciprocating pump | 
		
			| 12. | Study on Bernoulli’s principle | 
	
 
	
		
			| S. No | PG Experiments(Subject code) | 
	
	
		
			|    1. | NIL | 
	
 
Laboratory Equipments:
	
		
			| S.No. | List of Equipments | Cost of each equipment (Lakhs) | 
	
	
		
			| 
				  | Wind Tunnel | 3,72,750 | 
		
			| 
				  | Submersible pump test rig | 97,000 | 
		
			| 
				  | Centrifugal pump test rig | 96,000 | 
		
			| 
				  | Reciprocating pump test rig | 91,245 | 
		
			| 
				  | Gear Oil pump test rig | 92,610 | 
		
			| 
				  | Jet Pump test rig | 91,245 | 
		
			| 
				  | Demonstration of Francis Turbine | EUR 4509.45 | 
		
			| 
				  | Osborne Reynolds Demonstrator | 1,98,874 | 
		
			| 
				  | Bernoulli’s principle demonstrator | 2,12,109 | 
		
			| 
				  | Flow through helical coil | 89,900 | 
		
			| 
				  | Metacentric Height Apparatus | 33,600 | 
		
			| 
				  | Determination of Minor Losses | 65,835.00 | 
		
			| 
				  | Venturi, orifice and water meter | 92,085 | 
		
			| 
				  | Pipe friction apparatus | 61,110 | 
		
			| 
				  | Orifice and Mouthpiece tank apparatus | 78,204 | 
		
			| 
				  | Determination of discharge coefficient of notch and weirs | 81,480 | 
	
 
 
Lab in Charge : Dr. S. Suresh
Designation   : Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli – 620 015,
Tamil Nadu.
 
Phone : 98424 83638
Mail Id : ssuresh@nitt.edu