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Hydraulics 1

ENV2103

  • Level 6
  • 15 Credits
  • 0.125 EFTS
  • Course duration: 17 weeks
  • Workload - Approximately 9 hours per week
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This course will introduce you to problems encountered by hydraulic engineers. It will give you a grounding in fluid statics, steady uniform and non-uniform incompressible flow in pipelines and channels, pumped systems, culvert hydraulics and flow measurement.

What you will learn

When you successfully complete this course you will be able to:

  • describe the relevant properties of fluids
  • calculate pressures and forces on floating and immersed bodies
  • undertake simple stability analyses for small gravity dams or weirs
  • determine the rolling stability of a prismatic floating body
  • analyse and design simple pipelines for steady flow
  • select a pump to meet a specified duty
  • match a pump to a pipeline system and determine the operating point of a pump
  • analyse pump and pipeline systems involving single and multiple pumps
  • solve simple steady uniform and non-uniform open channel flow problems
  • design rigid boundary channels
  • classify gradually varied flow profiles
  • apply the concepts of specific energy and specific force in open channel flow
  • design pipe and box culverts
  • estimate the head discharge relationship for common flow measuring devices.

Assessment

Assessment for this course is:

  • 30% internally assessed
  • 70% exam.

For more information about exams, including a full list of exam times see our exam information.

Exams

Equipment

You need to have a scientific calculator that is non-programmable and does not hold textual information or display graphs.

Textbooks

There is a textbook needed for this course. Visit our textbook page for more information.

Textbooks

Computer and internet requirements

This course is delivered online, so you will access the course and do your study online, which generally includes reading and doing activities, watching videos, downloading content, and writing and submitting assessments online.

For online learning you need:

  • Access to a laptop or desktop computer
  • Reliable broadband internet and a data plan

Find out more about online learning

If you are unsure if your current computer or internet access will allow you to study online please contact us.

How to apply

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