421-316 Engineering Hydraulics & Hydrology

421-305 Engineering Hydraulics 1

At the conclusion of this subject students should be capable of solving a wide range of commonly encountered hydraulic problems in rivers and canals 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 the energy momentum principles and their application to a variety of open channel flow problems, uniform flow; unsteady flow in open channels, including the long wave equations and flood propagation by diffusion and kinematic routing; steady gradually-varied flow and the numerical calculation of surface profiles; rigid-boundary and erodible channels and sediment transport in rivers and canals; measurement of discharge; risk probability in hydrology and engineering works; the hydrologic cycle; streamflow and its measurement; flood frequency analysis; estimating flood hydrographs; estimating yield; stochastic data generation; design rainfalls and the 'rational method' with particular application to urban drainage systems and their design; and groundwater, with confined and unconfined aquifers and steady and unsteady well hydraulics.

One written examination not exceeding three hours (85%) and assignments of up to 3000 words in total, relating to coursework and laboratory classes (15%).