Hydraulic Engineering

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

Hydraulic applications in conduit flows: flow classification, shear stress and velocity distribution, pipe friction formula, energy equations, pump/pipeline systems. Open channel flow: application of the energy, momentum and continuity equations, channel bed friction, steady and uniform flow, specific energy, hydraulic jump, gradually varied flow, natural channel designs. Hydraulic structures and analysis of looped pipe systems. Appropriate experimental laboratory work related to the area of hydraulic engineering.