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This document contains important sample questions that may be asked during a viva voce exam related to fluid mechanics, hydraulics, discharge measurement instruments, pipe flow, and hydraulic machines like turbines and pumps. It includes over 100 questions organized into several categories: general fluid mechanics and hydraulics, discharge measuring instruments, losses in pipes, and turbines/pumps/impact of jet. The questions cover key topics like fluid properties, applications of hydraulics, flow measurement techniques, head losses, hydraulic machines, and experimental methods.

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This document contains important sample questions that may be asked during a viva voce exam related to fluid mechanics, hydraulics, discharge measurement instruments, pipe flow, and hydraulic machines like turbines and pumps. It includes over 100 questions organized into several categories: general fluid mechanics and hydraulics, discharge measuring instruments, losses in pipes, and turbines/pumps/impact of jet. The questions cover key topics like fluid properties, applications of hydraulics, flow measurement techniques, head losses, hydraulic machines, and experimental methods.

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This document contains important sample questions that may be asked during a viva voce exam related to fluid mechanics, hydraulics, discharge measurement instruments, pipe flow, and hydraulic machines like turbines and pumps. It includes over 100 questions organized into several categories: general fluid mechanics and hydraulics, discharge measuring instruments, losses in pipes, and turbines/pumps/impact of jet. The questions cover key topics like fluid properties, applications of hydraulics, flow measurement techniques, head losses, hydraulic machines, and experimental methods.

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IMPORTANT SAMPLE VIVA QUESTIONS

General (fluid mechanics and hydraulics)

1. Define fluid. Compare/differentiate solids, liquids and gases

2. What are the applications of hydraulics and fluid mechanics in Civil Engineering?

3. What are the different branches of hydraulics? Explain applications of hydraulics

4. Give rheological classification of fluids

5. Explain gauge pressure, atm pressure and vacuum pressure. Show the chart.

6. What is Newton's law of viscosity, explain with formulae

7. Write formulae for following -

Bernoulli's equation, Euler's equation, Darcy-Weisbach equation

8. Explain: Centre of pressure, total pressure and pressure diagram

9. Diff b/w Open channel and Pipe flow

10. What do you mean by the Most Economical Channel Section?

11. How do you verify Bernoulli’s principle in the Laboratory? Write the profile (graph)of variation of

Piezometric heads across the Venturimeter in this expt.

12. What do you mean by Collecting tank Calibration? How do calibrate a tank using the Gravimetric

Method?

13. What is the diff b/w Gravimetric flow and Volumetric flow?

14. How do you calibrate a Pressure gauge in the lab using the Deadweight method?

15. What is an equivalent Pipe? Discuss Pipes in series and Parallel

16. What are the different types of fluid flows? What is Reynold’s Number (Re). Give Fluid

classification based on Re.

Discharge measuring instruments

1. What are notches. Where they are used? Give their Classification

2. Differentiate b/w notch and weir.

3. What are the advantages of V-notch over others?


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4. What is Cipolletti notch? What is its specialty?

5. What is Calibration of notch/weir? Explain what Coeff of discharge and its use is.

6. Differentiate b/w Ogee weir and broad crested weir.

7. Explain how a notch can be used in an irrigation Naala (canal) to measure the flow rate.

8. What is nappe? what are different types?

9. What is submerged weir?

10. What are orifices and mouthpieces. Explain their uses.

11. Define hydraulic coefficients of the orifice. Explain them with relevant formulae

12. What is venturimeter? Explain its use

13.Explain the principle involved in the flow rate measurement using venturimeter

14.How venurimeter is used to measure discharge in an industrial water supply pipe, explain.

15.What happens to pressure of water when it passes through the throat of venturi meter

16. Give diagrams of following -

a. Venturimeter b. Stream of water through orifice. c. Ogee weir d. Broad crested weir

17. What is Vena Contract? What are diff hydraulic coeff of vertical orifices?

18.Mention a few practical cases where a civil engineer needs a flow measurement?

19.What is a Venturi flume. Where is it used? How is it different from weir?

20.Explain different sources of errors in the Notch, Weir, Pump, Flume, Turbine, orifice,

Venturimeter experiments?

Losses in Pipes

1. What are minor losses? Explain them. What is the practical significance?

2. Name different pipe fittings where minor losses occur. Explain with formulae

3. What are the major losses in pipes? What is the practical significance in municipality water supply

projects?

4. Give coefficient of friction values of some commercial pipes

5. Questions on related instruments.

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Turbines / Pumps / Impact of jet

1. What are the turbines. Explain its uses

2. Differentiate b/w impulse turbine and reaction turbine. Explain with examples. Also explain- Axial,

Mixed, radial, tangential entry turbines.

3. Explain the terms related to the turbine -

a. Draft tube b. Cavitation

d. Guide vanes e. Water pressure inside the turbine. f. Runaway speed g. Unit speed and specific speed

4. Give the typical layout of a Hydro-electric power station.

5. Name some imp hydel power stations of India /Karnataka. What types of turbines are used there?

6. Give different efficiency graphs related to turbines and pumps.

7. What are Pumps? Classify them, give examples

8. What is the centrifugal pump. What are the different parts? Explain its working principle.

9. Explain the following terms related to pumps-

a. Pump efficiency, overall efficiency b. Priming of pump c. Multistage pump (pumps in parallel

/series Submersible pumps

e. Impeller Chamber f. High head and low head pump. Suction head and delivery head

10. Explain the significance of the experiment's Impact of jet on vanes. What are the different types of

vanes?

11. What is the difference b/w Constant Speed operation of Turbine and Constant Head operation of

Turbine?

12. Explain the behavior/performance of a Hydraulic machine (pump or turbine) in analogy with

Human behavior.

11. Questions on related instruments.

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