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Credit points: 5.00
Contact: 16 hours of lectures and eight practice classes
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this unit the student should: understand water hammer theory and its application for predicting transient pressures in pipe systems; have developed skills in designing devices and operational procedures for mitigating undesirable pressure surges in practical pipe systems.
Content:
Pipe networks under steady state conditions; mass surge; water hammer equations; reflection and transmission of pressure waves; graphical solutions, computational solutions; air chambers.
Assessment:
An assignment of up to 2,000 words (20%); a two-hour examination (80%).
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Engineering (Volume 4 page 96)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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