Innovative questions related to the Open Channel Flow
1. What is water surface slope at critical depth in a given open channel?
2. How calculate roughness changes in water pipeline?
3. How to find depth averaged flow velocity in water flow?
4. How to predict the shields curve for uniform sand bed? also for uniform cohesive bed.
5. How to find the Shields curve (critical bed shear stress) for uniform cohesive
sand/cemented sand/microbially treated sand sediment bed?
6. What is significance of hydraulic radius in open channels?
7. How to estimate the rate of scouring and silting in an open channel
8. How should I model a pier which has a cylindrical bar attached to the front of it (to model
debris)?
9. How can I compute Exceedance Probability for a combined river discharge of two rivers?
10. How to compute Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate from the velocity data u(t)?
11. How to measure discharge of a canal by surface float method?
12. What is relation between Sf/Sc in trapezoidal open channel?
13. What are the Boundary Conditions for the wave analysis in Ansys Fluent?
Innovative questions related to the Hydraulics and Hydraulic Machine
1. Define pump and state the purpose of the pump in hydraulic system & classify pumps.
2. Sketch and explain external gear pump.
3. How are the control valve classified? write the classification of the control valve.
4. Explain with a neat sketch construction & working of the double acting cylinder.
5. Write a note on pipe material, types of fittings & connectors in the fluid system.
6. Mention the applications of pneumatics in the engineering field.
7. Draw a piston type reciprocating air and explain its working.
8. Mention types of the directional control valve and method of their actuation symbols.
9. Differentiate external gear pump with lobe pump.
10. Explain positive displacement pump & mention its advantages.
11. Explain with neat sketch gear type motors.
12. Explain construction & working of the single acting cylinder.
13. Sketch and explain the basic hydraulic system.
14. Sketch & explain pressure relief valves.
15. What are the common faults in the hydraulic system?