GATE Fluid Mechanics Syllabus 2025 (Available) – Download PDF Here

The GATE 2025 syllabus for Fluid Mechanics has been officially released by IIT Roorkee. As a national-level examination, GATE 2025 is crucial for admission into postgraduate programs in engineering and technology, specifically ME/M.Tech. This newly released syllabus outlines the essential topics and concepts that candidates will need to master for the exam.

The GATE 2025 exam is scheduled for the 1st, 2nd, 15th, and 16th of February 2025. The Fluid Mechanics syllabus includes key areas such as fluid properties, fluid dynamics, hydraulic machines, and open channel flow. This comprehensive coverage is designed to ensure that candidates are well-prepared to tackle both theoretical and practical aspects of Fluid Mechanics.

GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) scores are valuable for securing admissions into M.Tech and PhD programs across prestigious institutions like IITs and IISERs. For detailed information about the GATE 2025 syllabus and the overall exam program, candidates should refer to the official guidelines provided by IIT Roorkee. Proper preparation based on this syllabus will be essential for achieving a strong performance in the exam.

GATE 2025 Fluid Mechanics Syllabus – PDF Released

GATE 2025 Fluid Mechanics Syllabus

Section 1: Flow and Fluid Properties

viscosity, the relationship between stress and strain rate for Newtonian fluids, incompressible and compressible flows, and differences between laminar and turbulent flows. Hydrostatics: Buoyancy, manometry, forces on submerged bodies.

Section 2: Kinematics

Eulerian and Lagrangian description of fluids motion, the local and convective accelerations concept, and steady and unsteady flows.

Section 3: Integral analysis

Control volume analysis for mass, momentum, and energy.

Section 4: Differential Analysis

Differential equations of mass and momentum for incompressible flows: inviscid – Euler equation and viscous flows – Navier-Stokes equations, the concept of fluid rotation, vorticity, stream function, Exact solutions of Navier-Stokes equation for Couette Flow and Poiseuille flow.

Section 5: Inviscid Flows

Bernoulli’s equation – assumptions and applications, potential function, Elementary plane flows – uniform flow, source, sink and doublet, and their superposition for potential flow past simple geometries.

Section 6: Dimensional analysis

The concept of geometric, kinematic, and dynamic similarity, some standard non-dimensional parameters, and their physical significance: Reynolds number, Froude number, and Mach number.

Section 7: Internal Flows

Fully developed pipe flow, empirical relations for laminar and turbulent flows: friction factor, and Darcy-Weisbach relation.

Section 8: Prandtl Boundary Layer Equations

Concept and assumptions, the qualitative idea of boundary layer and separation, streamlined and bluff bodies, drag and lift forces. Flow measurements: Basic ideas of flow measurement using a venturi meter, pitot-static tube, and an orifice plate.

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