Hydraulics A
R M Wootton
5 points * 39 lecture hours, 26 tutorial hours * First semester * Caulfield
Turbines-types, classes and specific speed, pump operating characteristics; circuit matching; pipes; energy losses, reticulation analysis, water hammer, culverts, hydraulic structures for flow measurement, hydraulics of wells, sediment transport. Open channel flow - uniform flow, gradually varying flow and rapidly varying flow; empirical friction equation; energy and momentum concepts; specific energy and critical flow; super critical and subcritical flow; hydraulic jump; channel control structures; backwater profiles; hydraulic and computer modelling of river systems.
Assessment
Examinations (3 hours): 80% * Laboratory work: 20%
Recommended texts
Chadwick A and Morfett J Hydraulics in civil engineering Allen and Unwin, 1986
Henderson F M Open channel flow Macmillan, 1966