Module overview
Civil engineers need to design hydraulic systems to transport water and other fluids in both closed conduits (e.g. pipes) and open channels (e.g. rivers). Learn how to apply theoretical fluid mechanics principles to real problems in hydraulic engineering.
Controlling the movement of water and other fluids is essential to society, directly allowing the provision of clean water and sanitation to meet the growing demand. Civil engineers must design safe, effective systems that are resilient to future climate challenges, which involves having advanced knowledge of how fluids flow in different conditions. In this module, you will apply fluid mechanics principles to study incompressible fluids in adiabatic conditions (without heat transfer). You will learn how to design a closed conduit to deliver specified flows under prescribed conditions, as well as how to predict water levels for a given channel geometry, bed condition (i.e. bed roughness and slope) and flow rate.
The skills and knowledge obtained in this module are essential for all civil engineers and are used when designing anything that involves fluid flow, from the pipes and channels covered here, to groundwater flow through soils and rock. This module builds on the introduction to fluid mechanics in the first year, and provides a foundation for further study in hydraulic engineering later in the course.
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Pre-requisites: FEEG1003 and MATH1054