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Course description |
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Students will have knowledge of fluid theory and applied physics which relates to hydraulics.
This course includes the fundamentals of flow, control, disposal of water, and flow through open and closed conduits, orifices, and weirs. Besides the course provides the disciplinary foundations for working on water resources problems. The course develops the technical skills to quantify all aspects of the hydrological cycle. Each component of the water cycle is covered through lectures and a suite of exercises. An understanding of physical hydrologic processes is provided, including the ability to critically analyse and apply that understanding to new problems. Students completing the course will have a good background for further work on water management, including such topics such as integrated water resources management, urban water management, flood control, managing climate change impacts on the water cycle, water supply, contaminated sites management etc.
This course covers applications of fluid mechanics for engineering design of hydraulic structures. |
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Prerequisites |
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To follow the course it is necessary to have a good knowledge of Physics and Mathematics. |
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Objectives |
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The following list of course goals will be addressed in the course. These goals are directly related to the performance objectives.
• understand the properties of fluids
• calculate hydrostatic pressure on a horizontal surface
• compute hydrostatic pressure on a vertical surface
• recognize types of water flow
• draw hydraulic grade line for a simple system
• estimate friction loss in a hydraulic system
• draw energy grade line for a simple system
• compute discharge of water flow in a simple hydraulic system
• compute velocity of water in a simple hydraulic system
• understand measurement of flow and velocity in simple hydraulic systems
• calculate orifice flow
• compute flow over a weir
• calculate flow under a gate
• compute slope of a channel
• calculate area of flow in a channel
• compute wetted perimeter and hydraulic radius of open channel flow
• identify normal depth in an open channel
• compute critical depth of a an open channel
• use Manning’s equation
• use channel and pipe charts properly
• identify flow control type in culverts
• choose culvert size for a given discharge
• address inlet efficiency options
• compute impoundment volume
• compute impoundment outflow using orifice and weir
• compute reservoir routing
• Describe the governing processes of the hydrologic cycle including exchange processes between atmosphere and soil surface, surface water runoff, and groundwater flow
• Be able to formulate hydrological processes in mathematical terms
• Solve problems related to water resources development including groundwater and surface water
• Be able to integrate components of the hydrological cycle in a water resource assessment
• Be able to work with and recognise the limitations of hydrological data.
• To employ physical principles such as conservation of mass, energy or force balances to solve problems.
• To describe and solve problems on transport phenomena.
• Be able to employ mathematical and computational techniques |
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Program |
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The course covers the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and the flow of water in hydraulic systems.
Besides the course develops the technical skills to quantify all aspects of the hydrological cycle.
This course covers applications of fluid mechanics for engineering design of hydraulic structures. |
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Book |
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It is suggested to use a book that contains the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and the flow of water in hydraulic systems. Besides a book containing hydrological and hydraulic structures topics. |
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Exercises |
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Two exercise are obligatory, while the others are not necessary. |
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Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching
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Professor not available
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