Fluid Mechanics Lab Equipment

Fluid mechanics is the science related to the behavior and response of fluids which can be liquids, gases, blood, and plasmas to forces exerted upon them at rest and in motion. Fluid mechanics is a classical branch of physics with numerous important applications in hydraulic and aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, meteorology, and zoology. Fluid mechanics has a wide range of applications ranging from the movement of blood inside the body to movement of aircraft in the sky.


The fluid mechanics lab equipment help students in understanding the dynamics of fluid mechanics in various situations. The most common form of fluid which we see in our day to day life is water and the sub domains of fluid mechanics dealing with it are hydrostatics founded by Archimedes, the science of water at rest, and hydrodynamics founded by Leonhard Euler and Daniel Bernoulli, the science of water in motion which is also known as fluid dynamics. Hydrodynamics / fluid dynamics has been explored for developments in various fields ranging from the flow of water through tubes and orifices, the waves that ships moving through water leave behind them to raindrops on windowpanes to name a few.

Our training lab equipment help study the complexity of fluid mechanics which is majorly because of a term in the basic equation of the motion of fluids that is nonlinear; this suggests that the fluid velocity is twice over. It is a principle of fluid mechanics which is described by nonlinear equations that under certain conditions they become unstable and begin behaving in ways that at first sight looks to be totally unstable. In the case of fluids, unstable behavior is called turbulence. The unstable movement of fluids can now be retracted to form recognizable patterns which can be analyzed fruitfully, and this development implies that fluid mechanics needs active research in future to recognize more out of the intricate formations and patterns which can only be done with the help of precise fluid mechanics research and lab equipment.

The fluid mechanics lab equipment are designed to explore the basic properties of fluids which are briefly described below:
• Hydrostatics: Differential manometers, Archimedes’ principle, Surface tension of liquids.
• Hydrodynamics: Bernoulli’s law, Waves on shallow water, Compressible flow in gases.
• Viscosity: Stresses in laminar motion, Bulk viscosity, Measurement of shear viscosity.
• Potential flow.
• Navier-stokes equation.
• Potential flow with circulation: vortex lines
• Waves on deep water, Boundary layers and separation, Lift, Drag, Convection, Turbulence