Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

(Common with Civil and Mechanical Engineering)

The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory is a facility using the tools for the study of fluid flow phenomena. The Laboratory is in the department of Civil Engineering. The facility is staffed by instructional faculty member, junior engineer, and graduate students. All experimental setups are devised as bench system i.e. an individual setup works as a complete unit of fluid input in system as well as storage of fluid. At present the laboratory has nearly 12 experimental set-ups where student can practically interact with the fluid flow problems and various instruments used to measure the flow properties. Some models are also displayed to equip the students with better understandings of theory and practical problems. The experimental facilities provided in lab include: Metacentric height, Venturimeter, Orifice, Pitot tube, Orifice meter, Weirs & Notches, pipe friction and losses due to fittings and valves, Reynolds Apparatus, Impact of Jet apparatus, Centrifugal pump rig, Models of pumps, pipes fittings, valves, plumbing system, differential manometer flow through coil etc.

Some experiments in the laboratories:

• Reynold's Apparatus (visualization)
• Orifice Meter Rig
• Friction Losses in Pipes
• Flow through Coils
• Bernoulli's Apparatus
• Pitot Tube
• Minor Losses in pipes
• Valve Characteristics Experiment
• Venturimeter Test Rig
• Rectangular/V-notch
• Centrifugal pump Test Rig
• Flow through Annular Pipe