Hydraulics

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Analyse and predict the behaviour of sub-critical and supercritical open channel flows
• Analyse simple and complex pipeline systems, including pipe networks
• Identify and interpret situations in hydraulics in a way that is relevant to design
• Determine the capacity of pipelines, establish the pressures and the energy gradients along the pipe
• Devise solutions for problems involving open channel and pipe flows

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Operate systems used in a hydraulics laboratory
• Carry out and present engineering calculations
• Exercise technical judgement and make decisions

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Working principles of pumps commonly used in hydraulic engineering
• Different type of flows (i.e. uniform-non uniform, steady-uinsteady, gradually varied-rapidly varied)
• Mass, momentum and energy principles governing pipe and open channel flows

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Problem analysis and problem solving
• Group work/team work
• Report writing

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.