Uncertainty Analysis and Planning of Experiment; Methods of Experimental Design, Comparative Experiment, ANOVA and its use in single factor and multi factror analysis;Random Signal Analysis: Time domain analysis; RMS, Probability density function, Auto and Cross correlation function. Frequency domain analysis; Power spectrum, power spectral density, Cross spectral density; Digital Data Processesing:  Filtering and digital sampling; Windowing, FFT and aliasing; Introduction to Data Acquisition Systems: LABVIEW and ELVIS; Application of Random Signals in Mechanical Engineering
 

Flow analysis in pumping systems; design variations in low speed and high speed pumping systems; Concept of Rothalpy; Cavitation; Prediction of cavitation inception, Cavitation in hydraulic machines; Potential flow analysis of two dimensional cascades; Experimental correlation; Methods for solving direct and inverse cascade problems for compressible flow; Three dimensional flow in axial turbomachines, Radial equilibrium approach; Secondary flows and loss estimation; Off-design performance; Design constraints and variations in pumping systems for special applications; Stability of pumping sy

Measuring concepts; Data collection and analysis Uncertainty analysis; Instrumentation specifications; Analog and Digital signal analysis;; Applications of measurements for different mechanical properties.