421-316 Engineering Hydraulics 2

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

421-305 Engineering Hydraulics 1.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

At the conclusion of this subject students will be capable of solving a wide range of commonly encountered problems in applied hydraulics and will have acquired a user-oriented knowledge in engineering hydrology with sufficient theory to allow them to pursue further study in the field.

Topics covered include: Part 1: pumps and pumping systems (including pump characteristics, cavitation and pump selection); steady and unsteady flow in pipe networks, water hammer and pressure transient mitigation. Steady, uniform, gradually-varied and rapidly-varied flows in open channels; control sections; water surface computations; irregular open channels.

Part 2: Precipitation: atmosphere circulation; hydrology cycle; rainfall process; measurement and data error analysis and regression, spatial and temporal patterns, rainfall frequency. Streamflow: hydrographs, rational method, unit hydrograph and rational runoff routing models; flood frequency, yield, rainfall-runoff models, stochastic procedures. Groundwater: aquifer types, unsteady 2-D groundwater flow equation, transmissivity, storage constant, simple well hydraulics, numerical modelling in groundwater studies.

Assessment

One written examination not exceeding three hours (80%) and assignments of up to 3000 words in total, relating to course work and laboratory classes (20%).