Address:
Workshop 1, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Overview:
The Fluid Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering is an instructional laboratory for both undergraduate and graduate students. Presently, it provides support to the undergraduate course ME333 and the graduate course ME649. It provides a wide array of experiments designed to deepen the understanding of the concepts that the students are introduced to in the classroom, and also an opportunity to explore the broader area of fluid mechanics.
Equipment:
- Low Speed Wind Tunnel
- Smoke Tunnel
- Flow Rate Measurement Using Flow Meter
- Manometry (U-tube, Micro manometer)
- Pitot Tube and Pitot Static Tube
- Hot-wire Anemometer
- Computer Aided DAQ System
- Precision Pressure Sensor
- Precision Digital Balance
- Rotating Cup Viscometer
Experiments:
- Jet impact on flat and curved surfaces
- Measurement of drag on a circular cylinder in high Reynolds number flow
- Energy loss measurements in subcritical and supercritical open channel flow
- Measurement of fluid viscosity
- Determination of friction factor as a function of Reynolds number in pipe flow
- Studying laminar-turbulent transition for flow in a tube
- Study of a Turbulent Mixing Layer (ME – 649)
Relevant Information: Additional Details
Faculty-in-Charge: Dr. Pranav Joshi
Contact Person:
Mr. Manoj Sharma
Instrumentation Room, Workshop 1
0512-259-7928
