Hydraulics

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• 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
• Analyse and predict the behaviour of sub-critical and supercritical open channel flows
• Devise solutions for problems involving open channel and pipe flows
• Analyse simple and complex pipeline systems, including pipe networks

Knowledge and Understanding

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

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

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

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.